PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15914236
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["221", "032000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a cutlery dispenser for dispensing wrapped cutlery. The cutlery dispenser may include a case configured to expand from a compact configuration into an expanded configuration. The cutlery dispenser also may include a wrapped cutlery band disposed within the case and configured to be dispensed therefrom. The present disclosure also provides a method for dispensing wrapped cutlery. The method may include the step of providing a cutlery dispenser including a case and a wrapped cutlery band disposed within the case. The method also may include the step of expanding the case from a compact configuration into an expanded configuration. The method further may include the step of dispensing at least a portion of the wrapped cutlery band from the case.

Claim (Index 16):
The method of  claim 15 , wherein expanding the case from the compact configuration into the expanded configuration comprises creating a headspace between the wrapped cutlery band and a wall of the case, wherein the headspace is configured to allow the wrapped cutlery band to orient within the case for dispensing from the case, wherein the wrapped cutlery band comprises a plurality of cutlery packets each comprising a cutlery utensil, and wherein a height of the headspace is greater than half of a length of the cutlery utensil.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.09524
- Patent Class: 221.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14336701', '14336733', '15621247', '13324460', '12349203']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8096499270870428
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6075602027882258
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.789440954657161
- Mean Citation Score: 386.92928599999993
- Max Citation Score: 592.84875
- Similarity Product: 463.917238356024

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