PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16003919
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["604", "008000"]

Abstract:
Surgical methods and related medical devices for treating ocular disorders are disclosed. Some methods relate to delivering an implant within an eye, and involve providing an elongate guide device, such as, a flexible guide member or a guide wire. A distal end of the guide device can be advanced into an anterior chamber of an eye, or through at least a portion of a site of resistance along a physiologic outflow pathway of the eye, or from an anterior chamber of the eye to a location proximate a physiologic outflow pathway of the eye. The implant is advanced along the guide device toward the guide device distal end, and is positioned to conduct aqueous humor between the anterior chamber and the physiologic outflow pathway.

Claim (Index 2):
A method of treating glaucoma comprising:\n forming an incision in a cornea of an eye; inserting a delivery applicator through the incision in the cornea and across at least a portion of an anterior chamber of the eye in an ab interno manner under gonioscopic guidance, the delivery applicator comprising an elongate member having a distal end portion configured to retain an implant therein, the distal end portion comprising a cutting member configured to penetrate a trabecular meshwork of the eye for receipt of the implant in Schlemm's canal; penetrating the trabecular meshwork using the cutting member of the delivery applicator; guiding the implant into Schlemm's canal such that a distal section of the implant extends along a length of Schlemm's canal and such that a proximal end of the implant is positioned in the anterior chamber; and removing the delivery applicator from the eye, wherein the implant comprises flexible material that is at curved along its distal section, wherein the implant is sized and shaped so as to slide in place in Schlemm's canal without undue suturing, and wherein the implant has at least one opening positioned along its distal section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0303
- Patent Class: 604.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12437482', '12914940', '11124440', '12366242', '10395631']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8704329648135447
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5882593743180308
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8422156057639933
- Mean Citation Score: 534.317932
- Max Citation Score: 558.1549
- Similarity Product: 467.0412529767156

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

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