PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15756479
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["248", "074100"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus are disclosed for retaining at least one elongate object. The apparatus includes a first retaining member ( 702 ) comprising at least one female portion ( 712 ), a further retaining member ( 700 ) comprising at least one male portion ( 732 ) receivable in the at least one female portion, wherein the at least one male portion ( 732 ) comprises a first connecting region adapted to cooperate with a further connecting region and at least one securing element ( 785 ) slidable in a keyway ( 775 ) of the first retaining member ( 702 ) and engagable with said male portion ( 732 ) to securely connect the first and further retaining members and retain an elongate object therebetween.

Claim (Index 29):
The apparatus as claimed in  claim 23 , wherein:\n each female portion comprises a slot-like passageway in the first retaining member, and each male portion comprises a finger portion of the further retaining member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29825
- Patent Class: 248.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15162961', '13639951', '14221230', '14068629', '13623972']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8186891129640502
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4878414639689043
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7856043480645356
- Mean Citation Score: 143.568632
- Max Citation Score: 151.14098
- Similarity Product: 89.6646981582427

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

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