PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16047948
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["434", "236000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to tobacco products, including methodology, devices and compositions, for assisting a smoker to transition from conventional tobacco cigarettes to either e-cigarettes or a tobacco heating device. Provided herein are methodology for switching, along with kits, products and apparatuses. The disclosure also provides methodology for regulating tetrahydrocannabinolic acid synthase expression, for use in producing cigarettes, reconstituted  cannabis , and other products having reduced Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinolic acid.

Claim (Index 51):
A method of administering a protocol for transitioning a smoker of conventional cigarettes to an aerosol device, the method comprising:\n administering at a first time point commencing a transitional period during which the smoker is transitioned from conventional cigarettes to the aerosol device, very low nicotine cigarettes without restriction from among a supply of very low nicotine cigarettes, wherein the supply of very low nicotine cigarettes equals at least 20 percent of a number of conventional cigarettes the smoker smokes per day multiplied by a number of days in the transitional period, wherein the very low nicotine cigarettes in the supply of very low nicotine cigarettes contain equal to or less than 2.0 mg of nicotine per cigarette, and wherein the transitional period is less than 85 days; upon the smoker experiencing a desire for a conventional cigarette at a second time point during the transitional period, administering the aerosol device without restriction; administering the very low nicotine cigarettes without restriction at a third time point during the transitional period; and upon the smoker experiencing the desire for a conventional cigarette at fourth second time point during the transitional period, administering the aerosol device without restriction until an end of the transitional period.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.52941
- Patent Class: 434.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10568290', '10398534', '14487771', '15580270', '14822105']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3343239547565425
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5102487804931389
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3519164373302021
- Mean Citation Score: 278.647222
- Max Citation Score: 310.01453
- Similarity Product: 195.519029020555

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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