PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16267434
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["424", "489000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for treatment of nonvascular body lumen strictures such as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), urethral strictures, ureteral strictures, prostate cancer, esophageal strictures, sinus strictures, biliary tract strictures, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The method involves delivering, preferably via drug coated balloon catheters, of anti-inflammatory and anti-proliferative drugs (rapamycin or paclitaxel and their analogues) and one or more additives.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for treating sinusitis, a sinus stricture, or a nasal lumen, the method comprising:\n inserting a balloon catheter into a target site, wherein the target site is the sinus stricture or the nasal lumen, the balloon catheter comprising\n a coating layer overlying an exterior surface of a balloon that is inflatably expandable, the coating layer comprising\n an initial drug load comprising mometasone furoate, wherein the initial drug load has a density of the mometasone furoate in the coating layer of 1 to 20 \u03bcg per mm 2  of the exterior surface of the balloon, and \n an additive; \n \n inflating the balloon at least until the coating layer contacts walls of the target site to transfer at least some of the coating layer to the walls of the target site; deflating the balloon; and withdrawing the balloon catheter from the target site.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.42373
- Patent Class: 424.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14438327', '13272432', '13272427', '12731835', '15193866']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8242695780309748
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5938016043502339
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8012227806629006
- Mean Citation Score: 457.44952
- Max Citation Score: 496.29724
- Similarity Product: 438.3421711659384

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

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