PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16037395
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["401", "268000"]

Abstract:
A paint brush and method include a ferrule extending around and in contact with a plurality of bristles and a spacer apparatus positioned to space apart the plurality of bristles to provide at least one reservoir within the plurality of bristles. The spacer apparatus defines at least one opening extending through the spacer apparatus that allows fluid passage therethrough to the at least one reservoir to assist in removal of paint from the plurality of bristles when fluid is provided therein.

Claim (Index 15):
The paint brush of any of  claims 1 - 14 , wherein the attachment portion defines a narrow channel extending along an axis from the distal outlet opening to the proximal inlet opening that is elongated in a direction orthogonal to the axis, wherein the spacer apparatus defines a narrow opening extending along the axis through the spacer apparatus from the proximal end to the distal end that is elongated in a direction orthogonal to the axis, wherein the paint brush has a maximum width orthogonal to the axis, and further wherein the narrow opening defined by the spacer apparatus and the narrow channel defined by attachment member have a length in the direction orthogonal to the axis that is at least 50% of the maximum width of the paint brush.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80435
- Patent Class: 401.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14232752', '16029533', '15606234', '11640735', '13029596']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7155157514718837
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5315787711628842
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6971220534409838
- Mean Citation Score: 302.681754
- Max Citation Score: 418.74747
- Similarity Product: 352.3718711322033

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