PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15992941
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["270", "058080"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a sheet binding apparatus that comprises a first binding unit provided and a second binding unit configured to perform needle binding on sheets, and a second binding unit configured to perform non-needle binding on sheets. A needle replenishing position where needles are replenished in the first binding unit is set in the vicinity of the second binding unit.

Claim (Index 15):
The image forming system according to  claim 11 , which further comprises a selecting section configured to select the first binding unit or the second binding unit, and in which if the second binding unit is selected, the image forming section of the image forming apparatus forms images rotated by 180\u00b0 with respect to the images the image forming section forms if the first binding unit is selected.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82857
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15620285', '15288305', '15287170', '15855301', '14325953']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7072213238502335
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4692616219665247
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6834253536618626
- Mean Citation Score: 211.59159
- Max Citation Score: 228.09726
- Similarity Product: 145.10110866153718

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