PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875344
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["227", "175100"]

Abstract:
A surgical instrument for surgically joining a tissue includes a handle assembly, an elongate portion extending distally from the handle assembly, a pair of opposed jaw members, and a tissue stop. The tissue stop is mechanically engaged with a first jaw member and is configured to retain the tissue between the jaw members. The tissue stop is movable between a first position, where a stopping portion of the tissue stop is disposed between a tissue-contacting surface of the first jaw member and a tissue-contacting surface of the second jaw member, and a second position, where the stopping portion is between the tissue-contacting surface of the first jaw member and a lower surface of the first jaw member. A portion of the tissue stop is made of stamped metal section and a portion of the tissue stop is made of an overmolded plastic section.

Claim (Index 16):
The jaw member of  claim 10 , wherein the tissue stop includes a proximal portion pivotably engaged with the curved body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.88679
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14493483', '13208447', '12899954', '13887432', '13008255']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8962358496243183
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4997821617359931
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8565904808354858
- Mean Citation Score: 424.08483400000006
- Max Citation Score: 447.66913
- Similarity Product: 297.407186747067

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test