PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16406835
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["248", "237000"]

Abstract:
A standing seam mounting bracket and a method of using two or three to provide attachment points along a standing seam roof is provided. The standing seam mounting brackets enable complementary use of commonly-owned equipment for enabling roof maintenance and construction. The standing seam mounting brackets may be used in concert with roof jacks, roof ladders, scaffolding members and the like that are commonly owned by most contractors so as to facilitate safe and easy horizontal and vertical movement along the sloped roof.

Claim (Index 8):
A method for securing a rectangular cross member to a standing seam roof, comprising:\n removably sandwiching a first mated portion of the standing seam roof between a first compression member and a rear surface of a planar base of a first mounting bracket, the first mounting bracket further comprising a front surface opposite the rear surface, an opening extending between the front surface and the rear surface, and a bottom side, the bottom side being substantially parallel to a planar upper surface of the standing seam roof; and inserting a first end of the rectangular cross member through the opening such that a first surface of the rectangular cross member is substantially parallel to the planar upper surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 57.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.41935
- Patent Class: 248.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15785811', '15014311', '10887206', '14866413', '14698905']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8046965981419515
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5255650962847686
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7767834479562332
- Mean Citation Score: 264.15283
- Max Citation Score: 354.34393
- Similarity Product: 305.97741941406844

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