PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15956308
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["294", "025000"]

Abstract:
Handholds and protective cases that are equipped therewith and configured to be coupled to a handheld electronic device. Such a handhold includes an elongated body that is sized and configured to protrude from a back side surface of a protective case. Once secured to a handheld electronic device, the elongated body provides one or more finger holds along at least a first longitudinal side exterior surface of the elongated body that promote an individual's grip on the handheld electronic device.

Claim (Index 16):
An apparatus comprising:\n a protective case configured to be removably coupled with and at least partially enclose a handheld electronic device, the protective case comprising interior surfaces configured to contact the handheld electronic device when the protective case is coupled thereto and exterior surfaces configured to face away from the handheld electronic device when the protective case is coupled thereto, the exterior surfaces comprising a back side surface; an elongated body protruding from the back side surface, the elongated body having an interior surface secured to or adjoining the back side surface, an outer exterior surface that is substantially parallel to the interior surface, and side exterior surfaces that are between the interior surface and the outer exterior surface, the side exterior surfaces defining oppositely-disposed longitudinal side exterior surfaces that extend between first and second ends of the elongated body; and a plurality of concave recesses defined in at least one of the longitudinal side exterior surfaces, the concave recesses defining finger holds that promote a user's grip on the handheld electronic device from which the elongated body protrudes, each adjacent pair of the finger holds being separated by a nub.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.60377
- Patent Class: 294.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15277152', '13437957', '13656221', '12903944', '13037319']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7093464843476558
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4514466657450324
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6835565024873934
- Mean Citation Score: 129.04749679999998
- Max Citation Score: 139.35628
- Similarity Product: 107.94948183126928

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

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