PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16004260
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["239", "033000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a drinking straw that may be separated along its longitudinal axis into two halves so that the internal walls of the straw may be easily cleaned. The halves may then be rejoined together to again form a straw so that the straw may be easily reused.

Claim (Index 1):
An open cylinder drinking straw comprising two halves along its longitudinal axis\n the first half being an arc of said open cylinder having a certain thickness, outer surface, inner surface, arc length, radius, and longitudinal length; the second half being an arc of said open cylinder having a certain thickness, outer surface, inner surface, arc length, radius, longitudinal length, and a flange attached to each end of said arc along its inner surface and extending parallel to said arc and along the longitudinal length of said second half to engage said first half's inner surface; the arc length of first half and second half forming a complete circle when first half is joined with second half; the radius of said outer surface of first half and second half being equal; the longitudinal length of first half and second half being equal; and first half and second half may be joined to and separated from each other by a sliding action along its longitudinal axis that overcomes a friction fit created by first half's inner surface engaging with second half's flanges.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5625
- Patent Class: 239.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11156027', '13081307', '14317535', '12214635', '13700177']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7933498833350849
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4508998434453189
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7591048793461084
- Mean Citation Score: 107.023062
- Max Citation Score: 114.4189
- Similarity Product: 81.72606222866176

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