PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15877105
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["030", "162000"]

Abstract:
A self-locking retractable surgical knife including a sheath member having front and rear ends, and a retractable member including a support member and a blade supported by the support member. The support member has a front end, a rear end and an elongated interior space. The retractable member is partially disposed in the sheath member and telescopically received in the sheath member for movement between a guarded position wherein the blade is guarded in the sheath member, and an exposed position wherein the blade extends out of the sheath member. The self-locking retractable further includes a biasing member disposed in the interior space of the support member and a latch member disposed in the interior space of the support member.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 13 , wherein before introducing the latch member into the interior space of the retractable member, the method further comprises:\n sliding the retractable member toward a rear end of the sheath member during which a rear wall slot formed in a rear wall of the retractable member slides past a compression member formed on the sheath member, and a top wall of the retractable member slides past a gap formed between the compression member and a top wall of the sheath member; and lining up the elongate top slot of the retractable member with the elongate top slot of the sheath member, when the rear end of the elongate top slot of the retractable member slides past a rear end of the elongate top slot of the sheath member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64583
- Patent Class: 30.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15398296', '12114234', '10706354', '12620262', '13004084']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8286209479874913
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.570137767111073
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8027726298998495
- Mean Citation Score: 254.709158
- Max Citation Score: 513.6446
- Similarity Product: 372.524759733212

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

Dataset: test