PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16213536
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["030", "150000"]

Abstract:
A combination spoon and fork system capable of being stored in a nested configuration or used as a combination eating utensil with the spoon and fork connected end to end. An interlocking mechanism can interlock the spoon and fork in either the nested position or in the end to end configuration. The interlocking system allows the handle of the spoon to slide between rails on the handle of the fork and to snap and lock the spoon in place either nested with the fork or end to end with the fork to form an elongated combination eating utensil. The spoon and fork of the system can also be used separately from one another.

Claim (Index 1):
A combination fork and spoon system, comprising:\n a fork including a fork head and a fork handle, the fork head end including a plurality of tines, the fork handle having a pair of spaced apart fork catch features and a guide portion; and a spoon including a spoon head and a spoon handle, the spoon head including a bowl portion and the spoon handle including a spoon catch feature, wherein the spoon is configured to interlock with the fork in two distinct orientations by sliding an entire width of the spoon handle through the guide portion of the fork in two different ways, the two distinct orientations including a nested orientation and an extended orientation, wherein,\n in the nested orientation, the fork head and the spoon head are nested together, with the spoon catch feature engaging a first one of the fork catch features and the fork guide portion receiving the spoon handle to help hold the spoon and fork in the nested orientation, and \n in an extended orientation, the fork head and the spoon head extend in opposite directions with the spoon catch feature engaging a second one of the fork catch features and the fork guide portion receiving the spoon handle to help hold the spoon and fork in the extended orientation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29412
- Patent Class: 30.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14204497', '16213466', '11369709', '10936111', '13457989']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8618754640374405
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5537412068594642
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8310620383196429
- Mean Citation Score: 345.24243
- Max Citation Score: 446.74783
- Similarity Product: 403.7792678209007

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

Dataset: test