PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16184356
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["052", "588100"]

Abstract:
Hard panels formed from a wood-based material and having a decorative layer for floor coverings are provided, at least on two opposite edges, with coupling devices made in one piece with the panels wherein similar panels may be coupled together to form a floor covering, wherein these coupling devices provide for an interlocking in a direction perpendicular to the plane of coupled panels, as well as in a direction perpendicular to the edges concerned and parallel to the plane of coupled panels. These coupling devices are constituted of a tongue and a groove. The top side of the tongue has a protrusion that cooperates with a meshing recess located in the lower side of the upper lip of the groove of the coupling devices, and a portion extending generally parallel with the plane of the panel to form a contact surface cooperating with the lower side of the upper lip of the groove.

Claim (Index 8):
The floor panel of  claim 1 , wherein the lip at the one short edge is configured to flex upwards when coupling two of such floor panels together.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09091
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15844792', '14560704', '13893556', '13893426', '12821604']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.886826589612092
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.566221231581065
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8547660538089894
- Mean Citation Score: 370.60061
- Max Citation Score: 376.67795
- Similarity Product: 279.0931912748933

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

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