PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15975577
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["424", "497000"]

Abstract:
Described herein are injectable corticosteroid-loaded microparticles, pharmaceutical composition thereof and methods for reducing inflammation or pain in a body compartment such as a joint, an epidural space, a vitreous body of an eye, a surgically created space, or a space adjacent to an implant.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for making coated microparticles, comprising:\n providing one or more crystalline drug cores, each crystalline drug core including one or more crystals of a corticosteroid, forming a polymeric shell over each crystalline drug core by coating one or more coats of a polymeric solution, wherein the polymeric solution includes a biocompatible polymer and a solvent; removing the solvent to provide coated microparticles wherein the polymeric shell substantially surround or envelope the crystalline drug core; and heating the coated microparticles at 210-230\u00b0 C.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.38889
- Patent Class: 424.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14222082', '14461884', '14461883', '13422994', '15937053']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7412491250762352
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5702313635867603
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7241473489272877
- Mean Citation Score: 332.791962
- Max Citation Score: 507.05075
- Similarity Product: 358.53330552700163

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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