PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976622
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["424", "451000"]

Abstract:
Publicly available pullulan hard capsule shells present certain drawbacks, notably a non fully satisfactory shell mechanical strength (i.e. shell brittleness) at shell low LOD. Improving this property is a particularly desirable goal for pullulan hard capsule shells. The present invention solves this and other objects by providing new hard pullulan capsule shells and capsules comprising (I) moisture, (II) a mono-, di-, and oligosaccharides free pullulan and (III) a setting system. Also provided are an aqueous composition and a dip-molding manufacturing method for the manufacture of such shells and capsules.

Claim (Index 1):
A hard capsule shell comprising (I) moisture, (II) a mono-, di-, and oligosaccharides free pullulan and (III) a setting system, wherein the amount of mono-, di- and oligosaccharides in a pullulan sample is lower than 2.5% by weight over the total weight of the pullulan sample, on a dry solid basis, and wherein said mono-, di-, and oligosaccharides free pullulan is comprised at a level of between 85% and 96% by weight of the shell.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.55882
- Patent Class: 424.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13979087', '14470442', '13335067', '15357603', '15357693']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.720656611667716
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.538664496511717
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7024574001521161
- Mean Citation Score: 233.938916
- Max Citation Score: 383.36618
- Similarity Product: 318.366466409874

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

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