PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874625
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["036", "115000"]

Abstract:
A boot form for a hockey skate is made of multiple plastic materials having different hardness properties, or different flexural moduli, and is formed via an injection-molding process or another similar process. One or more of the plastic materials may be reinforced with fibers of glass, carbon, aramid, or another stiffening material to strengthen one or more regions of the boot form. For example, pellets of a first plastic material having a flexural modulus of approximately 190 MPa (e.g., a polyamide elastomer block amide) may be injected into a mold to form a softer upper region of the boot form. And pellets of a second plastic having a flexural modulus of approximately 20,000 MPa (e.g., a Nylon 12 with long glass fibers) may be injected into the mold to form a stiffer lower region of the boot form. Additional skate components may then be attached to the boot form.

Claim (Index 21):
A hockey skate comprising:\n a boot form for receiving a wearer's foot, the boot form including a lower portion and an upper portion, the lower portion including a heel region and a toe region, the upper portion including a lateral side region and a medial side region; a skate quarter attached to the boot form, the skate quarter comprising a series of eyelets for receiving at least one lace to tighten the hockey skate on the wearer's foot when worn; a toe cap positioned over the toe region of the lower portion of the boot form, the toe cap extending rearwards in a longitudinal direction toward the heel region of the lower portion of the boot form so as to span in the longitudinal direction at least two eyelets of the series of eyelets; a tongue extending between the lateral side region and the medial side region of the upper portion of the boot form to cover a forefoot and an ankle of the wearer when the hockey skate is worn; and a blade holder attached to the lower portion of the boot form.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.075
- Patent Class: 36.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13794071', '14094599', '13802381', '15270756', '12522718']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6819884519208865
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4657604362683447
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6603656503556323
- Mean Citation Score: 246.052284
- Max Citation Score: 283.58585
- Similarity Product: 236.0264935764253

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