PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976622
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["424", "451000"]

Abstract:
Publicly available pullulan hard capsule shells present certain drawbacks, notably a non fully satisfactory shell mechanical strength (i.e. shell brittleness) at shell low LOD. Improving this property is a particularly desirable goal for pullulan hard capsule shells. The present invention solves this and other objects by providing new hard pullulan capsule shells and capsules comprising (I) moisture, (II) a mono-, di-, and oligosaccharides free pullulan and (III) a setting system. Also provided are an aqueous composition and a dip-molding manufacturing method for the manufacture of such shells and capsules.

Claim (Index 6):
The hard capsule shell of  claim 1  which consists of (I) moisture, (II) a mono-, di-, and oligosaccharides free pullulan, (III) a setting system and optionally, one or more of the following ingredients: one or more pharmaceutically or food acceptable dyes and/or colouring agents, one or more pharmaceutically or food acceptable sequestering agents, one or more pharmaceutically food acceptable plasticisers, pharmaceutically or food acceptable sweeteners and/or flavouring agents and one or more pharmaceutically or food acceptable surfactants.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.55882
- Patent Class: 424.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13979087', '14470442', '13335067', '15357603', '15357693']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7430788309648986
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5417421940921969
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7229451672776285
- Mean Citation Score: 233.938916
- Max Citation Score: 383.36618
- Similarity Product: 352.82323188723564

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

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