PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16449570
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["052", "557000"]

Abstract:
Herein disclosed is an asphalt roofing shingle, adapted to be laid up in courses on a roof, comprising an upper headlap portion, a lower tab portion, vertically spaced apart upper and lower edges, laterally spaced apart right and left edges and top and bottom surfaces. The bottom surface is configured to be laid up on a roof facing the roof and the tab portion of the top surface is configured to be substantially weather-exposed when laid up on a roof. The upper headlap portion is configured to be substantially covered by the tab portion of roofing elements in a next-overlying course of roofing elements when laid up on a roof. The upper headlap portion further comprises a plurality of parallel, evenly laterally spaced, first markings, the first markings being useful, at least, for aligning adjacent shingles, cutting books of shingles, forming starter shingles from full shingles and forming a grid of shingles without external measuring devices.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 17  wherein abutting the upper edge of an asphalt shingle to the horizontally-oriented marking of the shingle used in the previous course comprises aligning the horizontally-oriented marking to the upper edge of an asphalt shingle used in the previous course on an edge thereof, fastening the shingle to the roof at the aligned edge and pivoting the shingle on the fastener until the horizontally-oriented marking is fully aligned with the upper edge of the asphalt shingle of the previous course before fastening the shingle along its length, thereby fixing its position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26316
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16030084', '15365201', '14626436', '10358698', '13155736']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.892346057351714
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.610352861204085
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8641467377369512
- Mean Citation Score: 533.5551720000002
- Max Citation Score: 674.86096
- Similarity Product: 476.0824330311871

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