PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15960801
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["030", "154000"]

Abstract:
A folding utility knife comprises a handle, an angularly movable blade holder, blade holder locking mechanism and a cutting blade with a cutting edge and an opposite indexing edge having a first indexing notch, a second indexing notch and a third indexing notch. A blade locking mechanism has a locking pin for locking engagement with the first indexing notch, the second indexing notch, and the third indexing notch holds the cutting blade in a first blade position, a second blade position and a third blade position, respectively. The cutting blade is removable and rotatable 180 degrees for re-insertion into the blade holder whereat locking engagement of the locking pin with the third indexing notch, the second indexing notch, and the third indexing notch holds the cutting blade in a fourth blade position, a fifth blade position and a sixth blade position, respectively.

Claim (Index 1):
A folding utility knife comprising:\n a handle; a blade holder mounted on the handle for angular movement relative to the handle between a fully open position and a fully closed configuration; a blade holder locking mechanism operatively interconnected between the handle and the blade holder for releasably locking the blade holder at the fully open position; a cutting blade extending longitudinally between a first blade end and a second blade end and having a cutting edge extending between the first blade end and the second blade end in opposed parallel relation to an indexing edge, said indexing edge having a first indexing notch, a second indexing notch and a third indexing notch spaced from one another along said indexing edge; a blade locking mechanism having a locking pin mounted on the blade holder for locking engagement with a selected one of the first indexing notch, the second indexing notch, and the third indexing notch to hold fast said cutting blade against longitudinal sliding movement within the blade holder; such that:\n i) locking engagement of the locking pin with the first indexing notch holds the cutting blade against said longitudinal sliding movement in a first blade position wherein the first end and a first short portion of the cutting edge is exposed for use; \n ii) locking engagement of the locking pin with the second indexing notch holds the cutting blade against said longitudinal movement in a second blade position wherein the first end and a first intermediate portion of the cutting edge is exposed for use; \n iii) locking engagement of the locking pin with the third indexing notch holds the cutting blade against said longitudinal movement in a third blade position wherein the first end and a first longer portion of the cutting edge is exposed for use; \n and such that the cutting blade is releasable from said locking engagement in said first, second and third blade positions to permit removal of the cutting blade from the blade holder and for rotation of the cutting blade through 180 degrees of rotation in a horizontal plane for re-insertion of said first end into the blade holder whereat: \n iv) locking engagement of the locking pin with the third indexing notch holds the cutting blade against said longitudinal movement in a fourth blade position wherein the second end and a second short portion of the cutting edge is exposed for use; \n v) locking engagement of the locking pin with the second indexing notch holds the cutting blade against said longitudinal movement in a fifth blade position wherein the second end and a second intermediate portion of the cutting edge is exposed for use; and, \n vi) locking engagement of the locking pin with the first indexing notch holds the cutting blade against said longitudinal movement in a sixth blade position wherein the second end and a second longer portion of the cutting edge is exposed for use.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.18367
- Patent Class: 30.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11804834', '12114234', '15165859', '13050662', '13455794']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8443063228596295
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5256308852559052
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8124387790992571
- Mean Citation Score: 316.742634
- Max Citation Score: 372.88724
- Similarity Product: 318.9434619211626

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

Dataset: test