PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16121774
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["168", "048100"]

Abstract:
Apparatus, systems and methods are provided for trimming a hoof of a horse. The apparatus is an adjustable cutting guide that includes a hoof band configured to extend around the hoof. The hoof band includes an identifier for aligning the hoof band with a mark on the hoof indicating a longitudinal axis of a leg of the horse and a cutting edge providing a cutting plane for a cutting tool. The cutting plane is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the leg of the horse. The cutting guide also includes a clamping structure for adjustably clamping the hoof band to the hoof at a user selectable, fixed position above a sole of the hoof when the hoof band is aligned with the mark. The systems include the cutting guide, a marking tool and an alignment tool.

Claim (Index 16):
The method of  claim 13 , wherein the adjustably damping the cutting guide to the hoof includes tightening the clamping structure of the cutting guide against the hoof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45763
- Patent Class: 168.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11432874', '11970506', '11807019', '11831479', '13843754']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.679167138921343
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.506762799512492
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6619267049804579
- Mean Citation Score: 256.01333200000005
- Max Citation Score: 276.77368
- Similarity Product: 196.1580528035212

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

Dataset: test