PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15983622
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["036", "028000"]

Abstract:
Sole structures for articles of footwear, including athletic footwear, include: (a) a lightweight foam midsole component for supporting the foot; and (b) a plurality of heavier and/or denser cage components covering selected areas of the midsole component. Spaces are provided between the cage components. These spaces may be sized, shaped, and oriented to define and/or correspond to flexion lines of the foot and/or to produce a more natural flex motion to the sole. The soles additionally may include one or more outsole components, e.g., on bottom surface(s) of the cage component(s) and/or the foam midsole. These sole structures may be engaged with an upper to form a shoe. The uppers may include one or more lace receiving openings supported by elongated wire or textile components. Methods of making footwear including such uppers and/or sole structures also are described.

Claim (Index 1):
An article of footwear, comprising:\n an upper; and a sole structure engaged with the upper, the sole structure including:\n a foam midsole component formed from a foam material; and \n a plurality of cage components, each cage component distinct from the foam midsole component and covering side and bottom regions of an area of the foam midsole component, wherein at least one space exists between adjacent cage components of the plurality of cage components, and wherein an exterior surface of the foam material of the foam midsole component spans the at least one space between the adjacent cage components and is exposed in the at least one space between adjacent cage components.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87356
- Patent Class: 36.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13605681', '15012464', '15292844', '15090052', '13804742']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.731880135583719
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5427324097417566
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7129653629995227
- Mean Citation Score: 412.461562
- Max Citation Score: 472.2544
- Similarity Product: 446.01730007152565

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