PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15881050
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["427", "002300"]

Abstract:
A balloon coating method is disclosed for forming a coating layer on an outer surface of a balloon of a balloon catheter. The method includes an application step where a vertically extending dispensing tube for supplying a coating solution containing the water-insoluble drug and a solvent is formed at its end portion with an opening portion for discharging the coating solution therethrough and when an opening portion-formed end portion side of the dispensing tube is kept in contact with the outer surface of the balloon in such a manner as to be oriented to a rotating direction of the balloon while the balloon is rotated about an axis of the balloon, the coating solution is discharged through the opening portion and applied to the outer surface of the balloon while the dispensing tube is moved relative to the balloon in an axial direction of the balloon.

Claim (Index 13):
A balloon of a balloon catheter, the balloon coated according to the balloon coating method of  claim 1 .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19118
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15282087', '15282230', '15282563', '15281860', '15188192']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8801241935817038
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6239592542871236
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8545076996522458
- Mean Citation Score: 524.517688
- Max Citation Score: 581.50006
- Similarity Product: 528.7617995344352

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

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