PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15992941
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["270", "058080"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a sheet binding apparatus that comprises a first binding unit provided and a second binding unit configured to perform needle binding on sheets, and a second binding unit configured to perform non-needle binding on sheets. A needle replenishing position where needles are replenished in the first binding unit is set in the vicinity of the second binding unit.

Claim (Index 13):
The image forming system according to  claim 11 , wherein the first opening is made in that side of the sheet binding apparatus, which opposes the sheet feeding section of the sheet binding apparatus, and a guide mechanism is provided to move the sheet binding apparatus away from the sheet feeding section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82857
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15620285', '15288305', '15287170', '15855301', '14325953']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.707790100146411
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4663694491275043
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6836480350445203
- Mean Citation Score: 211.59159
- Max Citation Score: 228.09726
- Similarity Product: 151.03014712009193

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