PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15883823
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["623", "020150"]

Abstract:
A fixation device for a knee replacement. The fixation device includes a stem configured to be fixedly attached to one of a tibial component of the knee replacement and a femoral component of the knee replacement. The stem has a continuously tapered outer surface and has a distal end that is distal to said one of the tibial component and the femoral component. The stem is configured so that the continuously tapered outer surface engages a patient's bone when the stem is inserted into a bone canal within the patient's bone. In addition, the continuously tapered outer surface of the stem at the distal end is configured to mechanically fix the knee replacement to the patient's bone by being wedged within the bone canal.

Claim (Index 19):
The fixation device of  claim 18 , wherein the outer surface comprises a non-tapered portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55769
- Patent Class: 623.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13832415', '15662781', '15005646', '13832424', '15005629']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8157133866225774
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5087295959487163
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7850150075551913
- Mean Citation Score: 309.02843800000005
- Max Citation Score: 326.93558
- Similarity Product: 193.82480104190583

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