PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16172974
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["052", "582100"]

Abstract:
A decking clip to allow a plurality of decking members to be attached relative to a support assembly, the decking clip including an elongate plastic body strip having a body length, the body provided with a number of openings to receive fasteners there through to attach the body relative to the support assembly, a number of upstands spaced over the body length and extending substantially perpendicularly from the body strip, substantially transversely to the body length, each upstand having at least two opposed decking board engagement arms, a first decking board engagement arm extending from a first lateral side of the upstand at an acute angle and a second decking board engagement arm extending from a second lateral side of the upstand at an acute angle, at least two centering members, at least one centering member extending from the first lateral side of the upstand between the first decking board engagement arm and the body strip and at least one centering member extending from the second lateral side of the upstand between the second decking board engagement arm and the body strip, each upstand and/or engagement arm being resiliently deformable to allow portion of a decking board to pass and to retain the decking board relative to the support assembly in a spaced apart, non-overlapping configuration.

Claim (Index 6):
The decking clip according to  claim 1  wherein a raised portion is provided along each side edge of the body strip on an upper side of the body strip, to provide the body strip with raised side edges and a recessed or lower level, lower height central portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.06757
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10913708', '11527282', '14860828', '12863217', '14199113']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8279987855635894
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4943220317457608
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7946311101818065
- Mean Citation Score: 205.63487
- Max Citation Score: 222.89108
- Similarity Product: 152.64000288672685

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

Dataset: test