PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15982661
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["623", "017110"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the invention include a disc or vertebral defect packing tape for use in disc fusion, disc regeneration or for the creation of artificial disks. The tape comprises a tape body and one or more support members. Each of the support members is contained within the tape body and/or adhered to an external surface of the tape or tape body. The tape body is configured as a packing material and each of the support members is configured to hold the tape body together.

Claim (Index 1):
A disc or vertebral defect packing tape, the tape comprising:\n a tape body; and one or more support members for holding the tape body together,\n wherein the one or more support members are:\n (A) contained within the tape body as an internal support member, \n \n wherein the tape body is wider than the internal support member; and/or\n (B) substantially enveloping an external surface of the tape body as an external support member, wherein the external support member comprises a fine mesh of biocompatible material, \n \n wherein the tape body is configured as a packing material for packing an empty intervertebral disc space and/or an empty space in a vertebral body/bone, and \n wherein the tape body is selected from a group consisting of a biologically absorbable material, a biocompatible material, biologically absorbable material, allograft, finely ground materials, and stem cells or a combination thereof, \n wherein the internal support member comprises a plurality of beaded elements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93478
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15384301', '15648053', '15201472', '11398873', '14640741']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8020370295258649
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4957949708185342
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7714128236551318
- Mean Citation Score: 179.417408
- Max Citation Score: 325.6378200000001
- Similarity Product: 318.5127186567701

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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