PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16037395
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["401", "268000"]

Abstract:
A paint brush and method include a ferrule extending around and in contact with a plurality of bristles and a spacer apparatus positioned to space apart the plurality of bristles to provide at least one reservoir within the plurality of bristles. The spacer apparatus defines at least one opening extending through the spacer apparatus that allows fluid passage therethrough to the at least one reservoir to assist in removal of paint from the plurality of bristles when fluid is provided therein.

Claim (Index 9):
The paint brush of any of  claims 1 - 8 , wherein the ferrule comprises an inner surface in contact with the plurality of bristles, wherein a plurality of grooves are defined in the inner surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80435
- Patent Class: 401.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14232752', '16029533', '15606234', '11640735', '13029596']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7154503323352692
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5317132574610107
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6970766248478434
- Mean Citation Score: 302.681754
- Max Citation Score: 418.74747
- Similarity Product: 353.9260863820338

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

Dataset: test