PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16180598
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["156", "060000"]

Abstract:
A hand tool is provided for the application of joint compound on wall board, having a planar blade affixed to an ergonomic handle. The blade has a concave arcuate working edge, wherein the concave arcuate curve extends the entire length of the working edge to each corner of the working edge. The concave arcuate working edge may be used to apply a self-feathered layer joint compound over drywall tape on planar butt joint or an inside corner joint. The blade is laterally flexible.

Claim (Index 1):
A hand tool for the application of joint compound to a drywall joint, comprising an ergonomic handle and a slightly flexible planar blade non detachably and non slidably affixed to the handle, the blade having a concave arcuate working edge distal to the handle, wherein the working edge has a corner on each end of the working edge and the concave arcuate curve extends the entire length of the working edge to each corner, and wherein the blade has two side edges on each side of the working edge.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71154
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12546003', '08585968', '10958752', '11277271', '12220822']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8921801661988917
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4813089940982162
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8510930489888242
- Mean Citation Score: 189.584698
- Max Citation Score: 208.79431
- Similarity Product: 159.13040330170392

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

Dataset: test