PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16004248
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["256", "064000"]

Abstract:
The present invention comprises a brace adapted to secure a fence rail to a fence post. The present invention brace may optionally be installed onto an existing fence or on a new fence. The invention includes a first fence rail brace member adapted to connect to two or more sides of a first fence rail, a second fence rail brace member adapted to connect to two or more sides of a second fence rail, and a fence post member adapted to connect to two or more sides of a fence post. The fence post brace member may form a vertical picket fastener slot, the first fence rail brace member may form a first horizontal picket fastener slot, and the second fence rail brace member may form a second horizontal picket fastener slot.

Claim (Index 5):
The fence assembly as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the pair of rearward-protruding side walls extend fully towards the pair of opposing left and right fence rail flanges.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.41463
- Patent Class: 256.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14863793', '15856673', '15856741', '15097267', '15363944']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6984350054163225
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4847606892229242
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6770675737969827
- Mean Citation Score: 268.12687
- Max Citation Score: 331.56024
- Similarity Product: 263.68142254819395

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

Dataset: test