PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16410665
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["424", "078350"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method of adversely affecting a biofilm, the method comprising exposing the biofilm to a composition comprising an effective amount of polymer that incorporates within its backbone structure a first polymerised residue of ethylenically unsaturated monomer, said first polymerised monomer residue comprising a covalently bound moiety that (i) presents pendant from the backbone structure, and (ii) comprises a cationic functional group or precursor functional group thereof.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein as a result of the biofilm being exposed to the composition microorganisms that form part of the biofilm are killed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.51923
- Patent Class: 424.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13082841', '13927228', '14115451', '13130089', '13213555']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6976686437466895
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5084642207377978
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6787482014458003
- Mean Citation Score: 212.696936
- Max Citation Score: 215.36351
- Similarity Product: 138.35487738218958

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

Dataset: test