PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16052077
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["132", "201000"]

Abstract:
A hair accessory for integration with a person's head of hair is described in this disclosure. The hair accessory illustratively includes a plurality of supplemental hairs, an attachment band that provides means for removably coupling the plurality of supplemental hairs to natural hairs included in the person's head of hair, and an outer strip coupled to the attachment band to cover at least a portion of the coupling means. The attachment band is illustratively flexible and couples to natural hairs included in the person's head of hair mechanically.

Claim (Index 1):
A hair accessory for integration with a person's head of hair, the hair accessory comprising\n a plurality of supplemental hairs, a flexible attachment band coupled to the plurality of supplemental hairs and configured to couple the plurality of supplemental hairs to the person's head of hair, the flexible attachment band including a connector panel, an engagement panel coupled to the connector panel and configured to move relative to the connector panel between an opened position spaced apart from the connector panel to a closed position overlaying the connector panel, and a plurality of spaced apart fasteners coupled to an inner surface of the flexible attachment strip, each of the plurality of spaced apart fasteners configured to clamp a plurality of natural hairs in the person's head of hair and retain the engagement panel in the closed position, and an outer strip coupled to the attachment band and configured to cover at least a portion of an outwardly facing surface of the flexible attachment band to obscure at least a portion of the outwardly facing surface of the flexible attachment band so that the flexible attachment band is hidden from view and an exterior surface of the outer strip is exposed, wherein the plurality of supplemental hairs are sandwiched between the flexible attachment band and the outer strip such that a portion of the outer strip overlies the plurality of supplemental hairs in order to be visible and display an ornamental adornment associated with the exterior surface of the outer strip when the hair accessory is integrated with the plurality of natural hairs in the person's head of hair.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04255
- Patent Class: 132.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15692644', '11078919', '16011879', '11256873', '15132756']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7716091993952414
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5361025055771319
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7480585300134305
- Mean Citation Score: 264.447014
- Max Citation Score: 446.0782
- Similarity Product: 427.0025336797357

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

Dataset: test