PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868109
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["206", "580000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method to secure a bolt cutter, wire cutter, cable cutter or other type of pivot handled tool with two protruding tabs whose apertures align with each other as the handles of the pivot handled tool enter a closed position. A shackle of a padlock may be inserted through the aligned apertures to lock the handles in the closed position.

Claim (Index 2):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the shackle of the padlock is inserted through both of the apertures to simultaneously secure the respective apertured tabs to each other and thereby secure the two pivoting handles in the neighboring relation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5
- Patent Class: 206.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15498046', '11605979', '13325033', '12653806', '12559097']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7869415410543495
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5334214683423207
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7615895337831468
- Mean Citation Score: 195.99179
- Max Citation Score: 376.8539
- Similarity Product: 316.9942915133417

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

Dataset: test