PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15762554
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["033", "018100"]

Abstract:
A marking apparatus and its method of use facilitate blind slide-mounting of an object to a mounting surface in a desired alignment using the object as an alignment template. The apparatus includes a post element, a retention element, a tightening element and a cover. The retention element is movable against resilient bias to allow the apparatus to capture a mounting slot in the object. The resilient bias moves the retention element to a gripping position, and the cover can be rotated so as to cause the tightening element to secure the grip of the apparatus to the object. When the object is aligned with and pushed toward the mounting surface, the cover moves against an elastic bias to allow a marking end of the apparatus to contact the mounting surface so as mark the appropriate location for installation of a fastener to supportingly engage the slide-mount slot of the object.

Claim (Index 1):
A marking apparatus for facilitating blind slide-mounting of an object to a mounting surface in a desired alignment using the object as an alignment template, the apparatus comprising:\n (a) a post element including a head portion, a marking end and a shaft portion extending therebetween along a main axis; (b) an object retention element movable with respect to the post element along the main axis between a closed position, an open position, and a gripping position therebetween, wherein:\n (i) the object retention element is resiliently biased toward the closed position, \n (ii) movement of the object retention element from the closed position to the open position results in the presentation of a lip groove for receiving a mounting lip of an object, the lip groove being at least partially defined by a gap distance between the head portion and the object retention element, and \n (iii) movement of the object retention element from the open position to the gripping position results in a reduction of the gap distance for securement of the mounting lip within the lip groove with a gripping force; and \n (c) a cover element including a surface engagement portion and being movable with respect to the post element along the main axis between an extended position and a marking position; wherein the surface engagement portion\n (i) extends axially beyond the marking end when the cover element is in the extended position, and \n (ii) is axially aligned with or inward of the marking end when the cover element is in the marking position; and \n wherein the cover element is elastically biased toward the extended position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33824
- Patent Class: 33.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15275319', '11542103', '14597197', '15326819', '14455471']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6527365084650609
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5875623846611386
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6462190960846688
- Mean Citation Score: 242.270922
- Max Citation Score: 490.779
- Similarity Product: 478.714100887835

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