PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976810
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["401", "099000"]

Abstract:
A writing instrument includes a barrel and a cap capable of being assembled with and secured to the barrel. The barrel carries a writing instrument. The cap carries a clip. A free end of the clip includes a detent that can be received by a corresponding indentation of an exterior surface of an external portion of the barrel when the cap is assembled with the barrel. The detent of the clip and the indentation of the barrel are capable of securing the cap and the barrel in their assembled relationship. The writing instrument may be compact. Methods of using a writing instrument include securing a cap of the writing instrument to a barrel of the writing instrument by causing a detent of a free end of a clip of the cap to engage a corresponding indentation of an exterior portion of the barrel.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 11 , further comprising:\n extending the writing element from the barrel after removing the writing element of the barrel from the interior of the cap and before using the writing element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.06122
- Patent Class: 401.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10250335', '10883651', '16061817', '11872616', '10828020']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6394236155222104
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4762095810258216
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6231022120725715
- Mean Citation Score: 219.598704
- Max Citation Score: 246.7506
- Similarity Product: 195.9630472018004

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

Dataset: test