PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15989287
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["408", "211000"]

Abstract:
A hole cutter has a cylindrical blade body including a cutting edge and one or more axially-elongated apertures formed within a side wall of the blade body. The axially-elongated aperture is configured to receive a lever, such as a screwdriver, therethrough. Each axially-elongated aperture includes a first fulcrum axially spaced adjacent to the cutting edge, a second fulcrum axially spaced further away from the cutting edge than the first fulcrum, and optionally a third fulcrum axially spaced between the first and second fulcrums. A lever, such as a screwdriver, can be inserted into the aperture and placed against each of the fulcrums to lever slugs out of the interior of the blade body.

Claim (Index 1):
A hole cutter comprising:\n a substantially cylindrical blade body defining a cutting edge and a longitudinal axis; and at least one axially-elongated aperture formed through the blade body and spaced from the cutting edge such that a portion of the blade body extends between the cutting edge and the axially-elongated aperture, the at least one axially-elongated aperture bounded by a bottom edge axially spaced adjacent to the cutting edge, a top edge spaced further away from the cutting edge than the bottom edge, and a side edge connecting the bottom edge to the top edge and oriented at an acute angle to the longitudinal axis of the blade body; wherein the axially-elongated aperture is configured to receive therethrough a lever for removing a work piece slug from an interior of the blade body, and the blade body defines within the axially-elongated aperture a plurality of fulcrums configured for engaging the lever and for levering the slug out of the interior of the blade body, the plurality of fulcrums including a first fulcrum axially spaced adjacent to the cutting edge and a second fulcrum axially spaced further away from the cutting edge than the first fulcrum.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98387
- Patent Class: 408.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14708596', '13006080', '12687065', '15585982', '15608428']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7675083123234313
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5757927132063921
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7483367524117274
- Mean Citation Score: 494.92542200000014
- Max Citation Score: 511.51343
- Similarity Product: 416.185103390466

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

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