PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15992941
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["270", "058080"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a sheet binding apparatus that comprises a first binding unit provided and a second binding unit configured to perform needle binding on sheets, and a second binding unit configured to perform non-needle binding on sheets. A needle replenishing position where needles are replenished in the first binding unit is set in the vicinity of the second binding unit.

Claim (Index 8):
The sheet binding apparatus according to  claim 6 , wherein the second binding unit binds sheets on the processing tray, at one end corner, and the first binding unit binds sheets on the processing tray, at the other end corner.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82857
- Patent Class: 270.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15620285', '15288305', '15287170', '15855301', '14325953']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7113905073534036
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4480462436333748
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6850560809814008
- Mean Citation Score: 211.59159
- Max Citation Score: 228.09726
- Similarity Product: 188.7175507078313

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