PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16364535
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["514", "440000"]

Abstract:
The invention encompasses methods for enhancing the ability of a companion animal to resist and/or overcome viral infections. The methods of the invention include an amount of lipoic acid that is effective in enhancing the antiviral immunity of a companion animal.

Claim (Index 15):
A method of treating a viral infection in a companion animal, the method comprising:\n administering to a companion animal in need thereof a food composition comprising an effective amount of lipoic acid, wherein the effective amount of lipoic acid is at least about 25 ppm; and determining treatment of the companion animal having the viral infection, wherein determining treatment of the companion animal comprises:\n measuring one or more genes expressed in a biological sample of the companion animal before and after administering the pet food composition to the companion animal; and \n determining a differential between the expression of the one or more genes in the biological sample of the companion animal before and after administering the pet food composition to the companion animal to indicate treatment of the viral infection.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.43333
- Patent Class: 514.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12336024', '12319287', '11154210', '16285641', '15589345']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7399408401921509
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5028132959337718
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.716228085766313
- Mean Citation Score: 234.947912
- Max Citation Score: 262.73477
- Similarity Product: 193.06702544412727

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

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