PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15900528
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["606", "062000"]

Abstract:
Implants, devices, instruments, systems and methods for correcting bone deformities in the lower extremity are disclosed. Specifically, implants, devices, instruments, systems and methods used for hammertoe procedures are disclosed.

Claim (Index 19):
A surgical method, comprising:\n exposing a patient's joint; inserting a first k-wire into a base of the middle phalanx proximally; retrograding the first k-wire from a tip of a toe, across a distal phalanx and a middle phalanx; inserting the first k-wire into a proximal phalanx; pulling the first k-wire to position a tip of the first k-wire in the joint; inserting a second k-wire into the proximal phalanx; driving a drill across the second k-wire and into the proximal phalanx; removing the second k-wire from the patient's joint; driving the drill and the first k-wire into the middle phalanx; inserting an implant into the proximal phalanx and the middle phalanx, wherein the implant comprises:\n a dorsal surface, a plantar surface, a medial surface and a lateral surface; \n a first body portion with a plurality of grooves inset into each of the dorsal surface, the plantar surface, the medial surface, and the lateral surface; and \n a second body portion with a plurality of grooves inset into each of the dorsal surface, the plantar surface, the medial surface, and the lateral surface, wherein the second body portion is angled relative to the first body portion; and \n completing the procedure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65217
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14458722', '15792730', '14446921', '14075332', '14373185']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7944926001503073
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4942289346239113
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7644662335976677
- Mean Citation Score: 291.9719879999999
- Max Citation Score: 309.4003
- Similarity Product: 219.85262975987203

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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