PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16409970
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["066", "177000"]

Abstract:
A shoe includes a knit upper and a sole secured to the upper. The knit upper has a wingtip pattern knit into the knit upper.

Claim (Index 18):
A method of manufacturing an upper for an article of footwear, the method comprising:\n knitting with a knitting machine to form a knitted element of the upper such that the knitted element is of a unitary one-piece construction comprising a knitted upper heel region, a knitted upper lateral midfoot region, a knitted upper medial midfoot region, a knitted upper metatarsal region, a knitted upper lateral ball region, a knitted upper medial ball region, and a knitted upper toe region, the knitted upper metatarsal region including a knitted upper lateral metatarsal region and a knitted upper medial metatarsal region, the upper having a knitted upper lateral side region and a knitted upper medial side region, the upper lateral side region including the upper lateral midfoot region, the upper lateral metatarsal region and the upper lateral ball region, the upper medial side region including the upper medial midfoot region, the upper medial metatarsal region and the upper medial ball region, the upper toe region being seamlessly knitted with the upper medial and lateral ball regions during the knitting process, the upper medial and lateral ball regions being seamlessly knitted with the knitted upper metatarsal region during the knitting process, the knitted upper metatarsal region being seamlessly knitted with the upper lateral and medial midfoot regions during the knitting process, the knitted element including a wingtip pattern, the wingtip pattern being portions of at least the upper toe region, the upper lateral and medial ball regions, and the upper lateral and medial metatarsal regions, the knitted element comprising a first area of a first type of knit structure and a second area of a second type of knit structure, the second type of knit structure being different from the first type of knit structure, the first area having a rear boundary, the second area having a forward boundary, the rear boundary of the first area and the forward boundary of the second area being coincident and coextensive with each other and defining a boundary line between the first and second areas, the wingtip pattern comprising the boundary line, the boundary line having a medial boundary line and a lateral boundary line, the medial boundary line comprising a wing-shaped curved line having a medial side portion extending forward from at least the upper medial metatarsal region to the upper toe region and a central portion extending rearward from the upper toe region, the lateral boundary line comprising a wing-shaped curved line having a lateral side portion extending forward from at least the upper lateral metatarsal region to the upper toe region and a central portion extending rearward from the upper toe region, the rearwardly extending central portion of the medial boundary line converging toward the rearwardly extending central portion of the lateral boundary line; the upper toe region being seamlessly knitted with the upper medial and lateral ball regions during the knitting step; the upper medial and lateral ball regions being seamlessly knitted with the knitted upper metatarsal region during the knitting step; the knitted upper metatarsal region being seamlessly knitted with the upper lateral and medial midfoot regions during the knitting step; the first and second areas and the wingtip pattern being seamlessly knitted during the knitting step.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 74.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58824
- Patent Class: 66.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15205672', '15284780', '14292226', '15005113', '14657379']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7295238641594727
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6214669526052873
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7187181730040542
- Mean Citation Score: 384.837032
- Max Citation Score: 632.89716
- Similarity Product: 604.6041504102516

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

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