PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15756479
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["248", "074100"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus are disclosed for retaining at least one elongate object. The apparatus includes a first retaining member ( 702 ) comprising at least one female portion ( 712 ), a further retaining member ( 700 ) comprising at least one male portion ( 732 ) receivable in the at least one female portion, wherein the at least one male portion ( 732 ) comprises a first connecting region adapted to cooperate with a further connecting region and at least one securing element ( 785 ) slidable in a keyway ( 775 ) of the first retaining member ( 702 ) and engagable with said male portion ( 732 ) to securely connect the first and further retaining members and retain an elongate object therebetween.

Claim (Index 41):
The method as claimed in  claim 40 , further comprising the step of inserting the keeper element into the keyway until barbed fingers at an end region of the keeper element engage into corresponding recesses in an end region of the keyway distal to said opening.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29825
- Patent Class: 248.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15162961', '13639951', '14221230', '14068629', '13623972']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8003506503362282
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4856584177526941
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7688814270778749
- Mean Citation Score: 143.568632
- Max Citation Score: 151.14098
- Similarity Product: 89.564863695817

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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