PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873734
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["156", "577000"]

Abstract:
A hand held combined tool for drywall taping including a drywall tape applicator attached to a smoothening blade is described. The dry wall tape applicator includes a gated protrusion for feeding a dry wall tape through a ridged slot and to be held securely in position by a user before dipping the dry wall tape in a joint compound container to coat the dry wall tape with the joint compound on both side of the dry wall tape. The user then pulls the dry wall tape through the gated protrusion and the ridged slot to obtain a uniformly dual side coated drywall tape ready to be placed on a joint and to be immediately smoothened with the smoothening blade attached to the dry wall tape applicator.

Claim (Index 3):
The drywall tape applicator device as claimed in  claim 2 , wherein the tape-feeder slot comprises a set of upper ridges extending in a direction towards the base plate from a first surface of the tape-feeder slot in symmetrical contact with a set of lower ridges extending in a direction towards the first surface from a second surface of the tape-feeder slot.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22414
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11172485', '11598852', '11464045', '11190298', '11893149']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9035187712319692
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4877837773873941
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8619452718475116
- Mean Citation Score: 194.994628
- Max Citation Score: 213.05756
- Similarity Product: 157.42860060082913

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