PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15903965
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["424", "422000"]

Abstract:
The invention comprises self-lubricating polymer compositions that are especially useful in medical devices and valves and gaskets of medical devices. In a preferred embodiment, the polymer compositions comprise a thermosetting or thermoplastic silicone elastomer in combination with a lubricity enhancing polyfluoropolyether fluid or hydrocarbon-based synthetic oil. In other preferred embodiments, the polymer compositions contain only biocompatible components. The improved anti-friction properties of the self-lubricating polymers can be demonstrated over a course of insertion and withdrawal cycles, where conventional polymers have changing and mostly increasing force required for each insertion and withdrawal, while the polymer compositions of the invention remain stable.

Claim (Index 33):
The method of  claim 29 , wherein the medical device is a tube having an outside diameter from about 5 mm to about 2 mm and an inside diameter of about 3.5 mm to about 1.5 mm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54286
- Patent Class: 424.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15594165', '14773611', '14414291', '10614474', '10614114']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7147866281154335
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.537561086400928
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.697064073943983
- Mean Citation Score: 193.179658
- Max Citation Score: 374.65982
- Similarity Product: 219.6229732737744

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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