PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891464
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["604", "192000"]

Abstract:
An auto-injection device including a housing, cartridge, needle, and needle cover. The housing includes longitudinally extending flexible arms. The cartridge moves relative to the housing and contains fluid medicament. The needle is at a proximal end of the device. The needle cover has openings along the longitudinal direction and moves between a first position, a second position, and a third position, wherein the needle is unexposed in the first and third positions and in the second position the needle is exposed. The needle cover is biased towards the third position. An abutment on the at least one longitudinally extending arm of the housing is receivable within the at least one opening along the longitudinal direction of the needle cover when the needle cover is biased into the third position.

Claim (Index 12):
A method for delivering a dose of fluid medicament via an auto-injection device, wherein the auto-injection device defines a longitudinal direction and comprises a housing comprising an opening at a proximal end of the housing and at least one longitudinally extending arm, the at least one longitudinally extending arm being flexible between a first position and a second position; a cartridge movable along the longitudinal direction relative to the housing, the cartridge containing a fluid medicament contained between a stopper and a proximal end of the cartridge, wherein the stopper includes a recess located at a distal end of the stopper; a needle located at a proximal end of the auto-injection device; a needle cover movable along the longitudinal direction relative to the housing between the proximal end of the auto-injection device and a distal end of the auto-injection device, the needle cover extending through the opening of the housing and comprising at least one opening along the longitudinal direction; and a plunger, a proximal end of the plunger being engaged in the recess at the distal end of the stopper; the method comprising:\n pressing the proximal end of the auto-injection device against a surface of skin, wherein the longitudinal direction of the auto-injection device is generally perpendicular to the surface of skin, and wherein the at least one longitudinally extending arm is in the first position, such that the needle cover moves from a first covering position to a second uncovering position and the cartridge moves from a first cartridge position to a second cartridge position; piercing the surface of skin and underlying tissue with a proximal end of the needle by continuing to press the proximal end of the auto-injection device against the surface of the skin such that the cartridge moves from the second cartridge position to a third cartridge position; delivering the fluid medicament by continuing to press the proximal end of the auto-injection device against the surface of skin until a circumferential flange of the plunger abuts a circumferential flange on an interior surface of the cartridge; and removing the proximal end of the auto-injection device from the surface of skin after the fluid medicament is delivered such that the needle cover is biased from the second uncovering position into a third covering position and the at least one longitudinally extending arm of the housing is received within the at least one opening along the longitudinal direction of the needle cover, such that the needle is unexposed and at least one longitudinally extending arm of the housing is moved to the second position, the at least one longitudinally extending arm of the housing extending inwardly from the housing when the at least one longitudinally extending arm is in the second position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.49123
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15046782', '13994885', '15681876', '13993534', '13996145']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7954895956742117
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5026084027774634
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.766201476384537
- Mean Citation Score: 292.645372
- Max Citation Score: 303.64664
- Similarity Product: 260.2048978528118

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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