PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16392931
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["052", "588100"]

Abstract:
A vertical joint system for a surface covering panel having an upper and lower surfaces, and a plurality of sides located between the upper and lower surfaces. The joint system has a male part along at least one side and a female part along an opposite side. The female part has a protrusion that extends from the lower surface and an outer most female surface on the protrusion. The male part has a recess that opens onto the lower surface with a portion of the recess forming an inner most male surface. The outer most female surface and the inner most male surface arranged so that when the male part of one surface covering panel is engaged with a female part of a second surface covering panel the outer most female surface overlies the inner most male locking surface at a first location and a second location.

Claim (Index 1):
A vertical joint system for a surface covering panel having an upper surface which is visible when the surface covering is laid and an opposed lower surface and a plurality of sides located between the upper and lower surfaces, the vertical joint system comprising:\n a male part along a first of the sides; a female part along a second of the sides, the second side being opposite to the first side; the female part having a protrusion that extends from the lower surface toward the upper surface and an outer most female surface on the protrusion; the male part having a recess that opens onto the lower surface, a portion of the recess forming an inner most male surface; wherein the outer most female surface and the inner most male surface are arranged so that when the male part of one surface covering panel is engaged with a female part of a second surface covering panel and when viewed from the upper surface, the outer most female surface overlies the inner most male surface at a first location and a second location; and wherein the outer most female surface is formed with a generally undulating profile and includes a first protuberance followed by a concavity followed by a contiguous second protuberance wherein the first location coincides with a location of the second protuberance and the second location coincides with a location of the first protuberance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63793
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15507602', '14813684', '14202260', '14014863', '10855568']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8302864335972896
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5433713297878945
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8015949232163502
- Mean Citation Score: 253.77760000000004
- Max Citation Score: 404.96243
- Similarity Product: 370.08928237576606

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

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