PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16013498
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["052", "409000"]

Abstract:
A siding assembly includes a siding panel and an insulating panel securable to a wall using a siding attachment member. The siding attachment member includes openings extending therethrough in equally spaced relationship that align with slots formed in the foam panel. The spacing between centers of the foam panel slots corresponds to the spacing between centers of the openings in the attachment member. The slots in the foam panels are sufficiently wide to allow the foam panel to slide relative to the fasteners securing the foam panel to a wall. The siding attachment member may comprise a bracket with legs projecting rearward from a web and a siding support shoulder formed at a lower end of the web. Lines of weakness in the web and aligned notches in the shoulder facilitate cutting the bracket to a desired length. Reinforcement ribs are formed in the bracket web.

Claim (Index 22):
In a siding attachment bracket including a generally vertically extending web having a plurality of holes formed in an upper portion of said web and extending across said web in linear alignment, said holes sized to receive the shaft of a fastener therethrough, first and second support legs extending longitudinally across and rearwardly from said web, and a siding support shoulder including a horizontal leg and a vertical leg, wherein said horizontal leg extends forwardly from said web and ends at a distal end and said vertical leg extends downwardly from said distal end of said horizontal leg; the improvement comprises:\n a plurality of vertically extending score lines formed in the vertically extending web in equally spaced relationship; at least one stiffening rib formed in said vertically extending web and extending longitudinally relative thereto and between the first and second support legs; in combination with a rigid foam insulating panel having a plurality of elongate slots formed in an upper section of the rigid foam insulating panel and extending in longitudinal alignment and equal spaced relationship thereacross; centers of adjacent elongate slots in the rigid foam insulating panel spaced apart a distance corresponding to a distance between centers of selected holes in said vertically extending web, said siding attachment bracket positionable against said rigid foam insulating panel such that said selected holes in said vertically extending web extend in overlapping alignment with the elongate slots formed in the rigid foam insulating panel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12192730', '11683363', '13271652', '10688105', '12367693']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8459458518912628
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5167663937344811
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8130279060755847
- Mean Citation Score: 274.44464000000005
- Max Citation Score: 322.68478
- Similarity Product: 241.14894248214128

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

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