PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16015078
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["606", "170000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to an ophthalmic knife and methods of its use for treatment of various conditions including eye diseases, such as glaucoma, using minimally invasive surgical techniques. The invention relates to a multi-blade device for cutting the tissues within the eye, for example, a trabecular meshwork (TM).

Claim (Index 1):
An ophthalmic knife, comprising:\n a shaft having a posterior end; a platform connected to the shaft on a side thereof opposite the posterior end, the platform comprising:\n a top surface; and \n a bottom surface, opposite the top surface, wherein a thickness of the platform between the top surface and the bottom surface increases from a first thickness at an insertion tip of the platform to a second thickness at the shaft; and \n a channel that extends from the top surface through the posterior end.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.32558
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15389328', '14375350', '15791204', '15484041', '15207329']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8033752303275444
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5793644027437002
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7809741475691601
- Mean Citation Score: 361.03855
- Max Citation Score: 526.15485
- Similarity Product: 468.15208163011374

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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