PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16064341
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["514", "635000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to metformin for use in treating a patient, wherein the patient exhibits an increased level of GDF15 in response to metformin treatment; to methods of identifying a patient who will benefit or who will not benefit from metformin treatment; methods of treating a patient at risk of developing or suffering from a disease or disorder comprising administering therapeutically effective amount of metformin; methods of adapting the dosage of metformin; the usage of GDF15 as biomarker for identifying a patient who will benefit or who will not benefit from metformin treatment, kits for use in identifying a patient who will benefit from metformin treatment and the use of the kits, as well as methods of treating a patient or who will not benefit from metformin treatment.

Claim (Index 2):
A method of identifying a patient who will benefit from metformin treatment, comprising the steps of\n (i) administering an effective amount of metformin to a patient, (ii) determining the level of GDF15 in a patient's sample, and (iii) comparing the GDF15 level determined in step (ii) to that of a reference, wherein an increased level of GDF15 is indicative of a response of the patient to metformin administration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63462
- Patent Class: 514.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15063000', '14370450', '15287228', '09460920', '13734966']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6813680340152881
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5138844616212862
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6646196767758878
- Mean Citation Score: 228.779524
- Max Citation Score: 236.57469
- Similarity Product: 145.48483502643228

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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