PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16213536
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["030", "150000"]

Abstract:
A combination spoon and fork system capable of being stored in a nested configuration or used as a combination eating utensil with the spoon and fork connected end to end. An interlocking mechanism can interlock the spoon and fork in either the nested position or in the end to end configuration. The interlocking system allows the handle of the spoon to slide between rails on the handle of the fork and to snap and lock the spoon in place either nested with the fork or end to end with the fork to form an elongated combination eating utensil. The spoon and fork of the system can also be used separately from one another.

Claim (Index 18):
A combination fork and spoon system, comprising:\n a fork including a fork head and a fork handle, the fork head end including a concave bowl portion, and a plurality of tines that include a pair of outer tines, each tine having a proximal base and a distal tip, wherein outer edge portions of the fork head are curved longitudinally including outer edges of the outer tines such that the outer tines get progressively narrower towards their respective distal tips, and wherein at least a selected one of the outer tines has a cutting feature on an outer edge of the selected outer tine, the fork handle having a pair of spaced apart fork catch features and a guide portion; and a spoon including a spoon head and a spoon handle, the spoon head including a concave bowl portion and the spoon handle including a spoon catch feature, wherein the spoon is configured to interlock with the fork in two distinct orientations by sliding the entire width of the spoon handle through the guide portion of the fork in two different directions, the two distinct orientations including a nested orientation and an extended orientation, wherein,\n (i) in the nested orientation, the fork head and the spoon head are nested together, with the spoon catch feature engaging a first one of the fork catch features and the fork guide portion receiving the spoon handle to help hold the spoon and fork in the nested orientation, and \n (ii) in an extended orientation, the fork head and the spoon head extend in opposite directions with the spoon catch feature engaging a second one of the fork catch features and the fork guide portion receiving the spoon handle to help hold the spoon and fork in the extended orientation; \n wherein the concave bowl portion of the spoon head faces in a same direction as the concave bowl portion of the fork head in both the nested and extended orientations; wherein the fork handle guide portion is arranged to extend around at least a portion of opposing side edges of the spoon handle to help maintain alignment of the spoon and fork handles in both the nested and extended orientations; wherein one of the spoon handle and fork handle catch features includes a detent and the other of the spoon handle and the fork handle catch feature includes a projection configured to engage the detent to help hold the spoon and fork together in a selected one of the orientations; and wherein the fork and spoon are formed from a glass reinforced thermoplastic material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29412
- Patent Class: 30.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14204497', '16213466', '11369709', '10936111', '13457989']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8626467323976345
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5504877089058561
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8314308300484566
- Mean Citation Score: 345.24243
- Max Citation Score: 446.74783
- Similarity Product: 378.5048820062751

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

Dataset: test