PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16078758
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["405", "264000"]

Abstract:
A process for regulating the water retention of soil materials used in agriculture involving providing a composition comprising a polymer selected from the group consisting of a urethane, a urethaneurea, a thiocarbamate and mixtures thereof, said polymer comprising hydrophobic and hydrophilic segments; and applying the composition onto soil materials used in agriculture to form a polymer film thereon, wherein the hydrophobic and hydrophilic segments together provide reversible hydrophobic-hydrophilic switching in response to water, such that the film surface switches from a relatively hydrophobic state in dry conditions to a relatively hydrophilic state in response to the presence of water in contact with the film surface.

Claim (Index 25):
The process according to  claim 1 , wherein the polymer comprises a copolymer segment of Formula 1a\n A 1 [-X 1 -L 1 ] m -Y 1 [-L 2 -X 2 ] n -L 3 -Y 2 [-L 4 -X 3 ] p -A 2 \u2003\u2003 Formula 1a \n wherein\n A 1  and A 2  which are the same or different, represent the remainder of the polymer backbone or terminal functional groups of the polymer; \n Y 1  is the hydrophobic segment; \n Y 2  is the hydrophilic segment; \n X 1 , X 2  and X 3  are independently selected ionic species; \n L 1 , L 2 , L 3  and L 4  are independently selected divalent linking group selected from diisocyanate, ester carbonate and amide residues which form independently selected urethane, urethaneurea or thiocarbamate linkages with each of Y 1 , Y 2 , X 1 , X 2  and X 3 ; \n m is an integer of 0 or 1; \n n is an integer of 0 or 1; and \n p is an integer of 0 or 1, wherein at least one of m, n and p is 1.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86667
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14575517', '14409612', '15394538', '12873361', '12952856']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7545399701192815
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4943981722985855
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.728525790337212
- Mean Citation Score: 212.401138
- Max Citation Score: 216.808
- Similarity Product: 151.14991817855838

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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