PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875856
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "046000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a first toner image forming unit for forming first toner image on a transfer belt with a first toner and a second toner image forming unit for forming a second toner image on the transfer belt with a second toner. A secondary transfer unit transfers the first and second toner images from the transfer belt to a sheet traveling in a sheet transport direction. A fixing unit fixes the first and second toner images to the sheet. A control unit controls the first toner image forming unit to form a first pattern, the second toner image forming unit to form a second pattern, and to leaving a margin on a downstream side of the sheet in the sheet transport direction that is greater than or equal to a circumferential distance of a fixing element in the fixing unit.

Claim (Index 16):
The method of  claim 15 , wherein the first toner is decolorable toner and the second toner is non-decolorable toner.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.98
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14551288', '15466038', '14341609', '13493059', '15233353']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8278588088220583
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4895511052932127
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7940280384691738
- Mean Citation Score: 225.910406
- Max Citation Score: 245.64326
- Similarity Product: 175.65300668462754

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