PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939193
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["030", "147000"]

Abstract:
An eating utensil is structured to avoid touching a table surface. The eating utensil includes a handle, a food-handling portion connected to the handle, and a double-legged stand that lifts the food-handling portion of the eating utensil so as to avoid contact with a potentially contaminated surface. In various embodiments, the non-handle portion of the eating instrument is structured as a fork, spoon, or knife. The eating utensil can be made of various materials, such as stainless steel or silver. In an embodiment, the eating utensil is a plastic disposable eating utensil. The eating utensil will preferably make up a set of various different types of eating utensils (e.g., fork, spoon, knife) that can be stacked one upon another.

Claim (Index 4):
The eating utensil of  claim 1 , wherein the eating utensil is a spoon.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01471
- Patent Class: 30.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13457989', '15377157', '14096425', '14540603', '15407936']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8330597005508834
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4418111389970585
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.793934844395501
- Mean Citation Score: 161.602602
- Max Citation Score: 163.86075
- Similarity Product: 141.39523913379014

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

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