PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920642
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["156", "291000"]

Abstract:
Footwear fabrication methods are disclosed, having reduced material consumption and/or waste requirements, compared to conventional methods, as well as the footwear articles made by such methods. The fabrication methods and articles are characterized by the selective use of a bonding agent, in the form of a powder or tackified (e.g., preheated) powder, to bond various material panels, such substrate, mesh, and/or skin panels in the formation of a composite panel (e.g., a bonded mesh composite panel), which may in turn be used to provide a footwear upper and ultimately an article of footwear. The bonding agent is particularly applicable to fabrication processes utilizing a combination of heat and pressure for bonding or fusing material panels, each having a suitable composition, size, shape, and thickness, into the particular configuration of the footwear upper.

Claim (Index 4):
A method of fabricating a layered material structure comprising\n (a) selectively depositing a bonding agent, as a powder or a tackified powder, onto a substrate panel in one or more areas of overlap between the substrate panel and at least one additional panel, (b) positioning the additional panel onto the substrate panel, such that the bonding agent is selectively deposited between these panels in the one or more areas of overlap, and (c) compressing the substrate and mesh panels under bonding conditions suitable for forming the layered material structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89024
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15075372', '13599610', '14036381', '15395110', '13467477']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9024032572467308
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5189249121542536
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8640554227374831
- Mean Citation Score: 269.6604899999999
- Max Citation Score: 341.6442
- Similarity Product: 314.52571348811387

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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