PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15966144
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["036", "092000"]

Abstract:
The present invention generally relates to therapeutic footwear such as sandals, conventional shoes, and corrective inserts that may be inserted into conventional shoes. Specifically, the therapeutic footwear may be used for maintaining, correcting, or repositioning the great toe to decrease pressure on the first metatarsal-phalangeal joint or bunion. Additional therapeutic features may include spreading of the wearer's toes, supporting the wearer's arch to control excessive pronation, and providing sustained heel cord stretch at rest, during ambulation, pedicure, and before, during, or after medical treatment.

Claim (Index 1):
A therapeutic footwear for supporting a wearer's foot having a heel portion and plurality of toes including a great toe, the footwear including:\n a horizontally extending base having first and second spaced apart ends, the first end adapted to support the heel portion of the wearer's foot, the second end adapted to support the plurality of toes; an ankle support strap adapted to secure the footwear to the wearer's foot; a first adjustable strap adapted to apply a medial force on the great toe, the first adjustable strap including an adjustment mechanism and first and second portions, the first portion coupled to the second end of the base, the second portion adapted to secure the adjustable strap to the base, the adjustment mechanism adapted to vary the medial force applied to the great toe; and a second adjustable strap adapted to apply a lateral force to a great toe joint, the second adjustable strap including an adjustment mechanism and first and second ends, the first end coupled to the second end of the base, the second end adapted to secure the second adjustable strap to the base, and the adjustment mechanism adapted to vary the lateral force applied to the great toe joint.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.50746
- Patent Class: 36.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14485949', '14865208', '12862397', '13847311', '13847281']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7147788954218054
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5450614363835435
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6978071495179793
- Mean Citation Score: 335.678418
- Max Citation Score: 461.51895
- Similarity Product: 457.7022316459716

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

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