PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055885
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["004", "255110"]

Abstract:
A toilet plunger is provided having an improved skirt and reinforced handle portion to prevent the collapse of the plunger and to facilitate a negative pressure being extended against an obstruction in a toilet.

Claim (Index 4):
The toilet plunger according to  claim 1  wherein an upper surface of bottom skirt  20  defines a plurality of rectangular ribs  26 , each rib  26  having an axis along its length that is tangential to the outer circumferential edge of the skirt.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.25
- Patent Class: 4.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12133041', '12754101', '13889539', '14224722', '10511782']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7916064026111075
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5001409839052927
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7624598607405261
- Mean Citation Score: 145.339584
- Max Citation Score: 153.86342
- Similarity Product: 88.39246589152216

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