PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16066571
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["264", "033000"]

Abstract:
Features for formliners to form a decorative pattern in a curable material and methods of using the same are disclosed. An improved formliner is disclosed with substantially seamlessly connecting components that reduces the need for using adhesives for interconnecting a plurality of formliners in a pattern. Further, the formliner is configured to reduce and/or substantially eliminate visible seams in order to create a more natural appearance in a finished product of the curable material.

Claim (Index 43):
A formliner for use in creating a pattern in curable material, the formliner comprising:\n a cell comprising a base configured to face curable material in use, the base configured to create a pattern on the curable material; a rib system comprising a plurality of ribs extending along the cell and forming at least a part of a boundary of the cell, the plurality of ribs comprising:\n a first section connected with the cell and comprising a first rib end, the first section configured to face the curable material in use; and \n a second section connected with the cell and comprising a second rib end, at least a portion of the first section configured to overlap onto at least a portion of the second section; and \n a groove connecting at least a part of the cell to at least one rib of the plurality of ribs, the groove configured to accept the first rib end in the groove, wherein at least a portion the first rib end is in the groove when the at least a portion of the first section overlaps onto the at least a portion of the second section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12850510', '14137733', '12238294', '12406896', '14664053']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8201243990707541
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5576681373076974
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7938787728944484
- Mean Citation Score: 417.073564
- Max Citation Score: 436.82834
- Similarity Product: 346.6423495804084

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