PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15917207
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["606", "051000"]

Abstract:
Disposable, bipolar electrosurgical forceps are designed to prevent the sticking of body tissue to the tips of the forceps and include a pair of electrode arms having lengths with opposite proximal and distal ends, with thin layers of biocompatible metal on the forceps arm distal ends and bipolar electrical conductors permanently secured to the forceps arm proximal ends.

Claim (Index 1):
A tissue-sticking resistant forceps comprising:\n first and second elongate pincers, each pincer having an intermediate body portion that is shaped and dimensioned to be held in a single hand, and each pincer having a proximal end portion and a distal portion at opposite ends of the intermediate body portion, the pincer distal end portions extending from the intermediate body portions to pointed end tips of the pincers, the first and second pincers consisting of an aluminum alloy; an electrically conductive cord permanently connected to the proximal end portion of at least one pincer, the cord having a flexible length that extends from the at least one pincer to an electrical connector from the at least one pincer; and a layer of biocompatible metal on each pincer tip, the layer of biocompatible metal having a thickness being not more than 0.010 inches.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 66.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5641
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11676340', '13737686', '15269528', '13260847', '14964695']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.754256461777041
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.564093793955451
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.735240194994882
- Mean Citation Score: 268.402632
- Max Citation Score: 473.59116
- Similarity Product: 447.5836986750412

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