PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16182516
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["606", "042000"]

Abstract:
An extendable electrosurgical pencil adapted to receive an electrode controllable by an electrical signal for performing surgical operations, including a housing that comprises first and second housing parts with a main housing part therebetween, a flexible printed circuit, a switch on the main housing part that is adapted to be activated from outside the housing for closing the flexible circuit, and an electrode receiver on the first housing part, wherein the first housing part is adapted to slide inside the main housing part to provide a telescopic extension of the pencil, the electrode and the flexible printed circuit following the sliding movement.

Claim (Index 6):
Electrosurgical pencil ( 400 ) according to  claim 1 , wherein the flexible printed circuit ( 2 ) is of a paper-thin flexible material, such as a foil, with a control structure printed upon it, preferably the flexibility of the flexible printed circuit ( 2 ) is used such that the flexible printed circuit ( 2 ) remains in contact with both the electrode ( 1 ) and the switching means ( 3 ).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98182
- Patent Class: 606.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14114476', '15868926', '14487447', '10716776', '11897457']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.834549602960966
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5047214114251131
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8015667838073808
- Mean Citation Score: 275.67312400000003
- Max Citation Score: 339.2033
- Similarity Product: 232.7161045048833

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

Dataset: test