PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920642
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["156", "291000"]

Abstract:
Footwear fabrication methods are disclosed, having reduced material consumption and/or waste requirements, compared to conventional methods, as well as the footwear articles made by such methods. The fabrication methods and articles are characterized by the selective use of a bonding agent, in the form of a powder or tackified (e.g., preheated) powder, to bond various material panels, such substrate, mesh, and/or skin panels in the formation of a composite panel (e.g., a bonded mesh composite panel), which may in turn be used to provide a footwear upper and ultimately an article of footwear. The bonding agent is particularly applicable to fabrication processes utilizing a combination of heat and pressure for bonding or fusing material panels, each having a suitable composition, size, shape, and thickness, into the particular configuration of the footwear upper.

Claim (Index 3):
The layered material structure of  claim 2 , wherein the apparel item is selected from the group consisting of gloves, socks, a hat, a helmet, a jacket, and an item of skiwear, and wherein the sporting goods item is selected from the group consisting of a football, a basketball, a baseball, a volleyball, and a golf ball.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89024
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15075372', '13599610', '14036381', '15395110', '13467477']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9235151925244937
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5270004734499701
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8838637206170413
- Mean Citation Score: 269.6604899999999
- Max Citation Score: 341.6442
- Similarity Product: 188.91831859760285

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