PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980444
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["248", "070000"]

Abstract:
A clip, for securing a portion of a long thin item such as a cable or pipe, includes a cradle portion for receiving a surface of an item to be secured, a fixing portion with at least one formation extending to be securable to a support, and a flexible member extending from a location at or adjacent an end of the cradle portion. The flexible portion has a free end and formations at or near the free end to engage with other formations fixed in relation to the cradle portion. In use, the cradle portion and the flexible member define an enclosing loop, such that the flexible member may hold an item against the cradle.

Claim (Index 1):
A clip, for securing a portion of a long thin item such as a cable or pipe, comprising:\n a cradle portion for receiving a surface of an item to be secured, a fixing portion with at least one formation extending to be securable to a support, and a flexible member extending from a location at or adjacent an end of the cradle portion, the flexible member having a free end and formations at or near the free end to engage with other formations fixed in relation to the cradle portion such that the cradle portion and the flexible member define an enclosing loop, such that the flexible member may hold an item against the cradle portion, wherein the cradle portion is formed as surfaces of an inwardly facing aspect of a cradle member, and the other formations are on an outwardly facing aspect of the cradle member, and a retaining member is spaced apart from the outwardly facing side of the cradle member sufficient that the free end of the flexible member may pass between the retaining member and the cradle member, wherein the cradle member supported from one or more of the retaining member and the fixing portion by walls at both sides adjacent an end of the cradle member, to leave a socket into which the free end of the flexible member may be inserted, the socket defined by the retaining member, the cradle member and the walls, and wherein at least one of said walls at a side adjacent said end of said cradle member is frangible.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 155.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03279
- Patent Class: 248.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15317540', '15037560', '15307167', '11996704', '15307231']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8180062183025681
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5580013974688134
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7920057362191927
- Mean Citation Score: 227.744988
- Max Citation Score: 434.59387
- Similarity Product: 417.0797837902021

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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