PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16031000
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["004", "255010"]

Abstract:
A drain clearing device includes an elongated shaft having a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The elongated shaft has a first set of barbs spaced apart along a length of the shaft on a first side of the shaft between the first and second ends and a second set of barbs spaced apart along the length of the shaft on a second side of the shaft between the first and second ends. The drain clearing device further includes a collecting member having a fixed end and a free end. The fixed end is coupled to the elongated shaft proximate the first end and the free end is movable relative to the fixed end from a collapsed position to an extended position, in which the elongated shaft is substantially surrounded by the collecting member. The collecting member is configured to contain debris from a drain.

Claim (Index 19):
The method of  claim 17 , wherein the plurality of barbs include a first set of barbs spaced apart along a length of the shaft on a first side of the shaft between the first and second ends and a second set of barbs spaced apart along the length of the shaft on a second side of the shaft between the first and second ends, and further comprising engaging debris in the drain with the first set of barbs, the second set of barbs, or both.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.87037
- Patent Class: 4.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14817858', '10881848', '13886171', '15234988', '14624161']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7677544480931829
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5340463714365377
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7443836404275184
- Mean Citation Score: 198.891702
- Max Citation Score: 364.97717
- Similarity Product: 274.5185570472932

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