PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15994246
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["040", "661090"]

Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a plurality of labeling bands includes extruding an elastic material, co-extruding a label material with the elastic material, curing the elastic material and the label material, and locating a plurality of demarcations at intervals along the length of the tube to define the plurality of labeling bands. Co-extruding the label material with the elastic material includes forming a tube having an outer surface, an inner surface and a length, so that the label material forms a stripe on the outer surface. In another aspect, an article of manufacture includes an endless band of a first elastic material and a label of a second material embedded into an outer surface of the endless band. The endless band includes the outer surface, an inner surface and first and second opposed perimeter edges, each of the first and second opposed perimeter edges having a common unstretched perimeter dimension.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 10 , further including applying a release liner to the adhesive.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63934
- Patent Class: 40.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15608150', '15816019', '13513314', '15707370', '14337701']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7364571176970794
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5243551726899072
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7152469231963623
- Mean Citation Score: 216.209962
- Max Citation Score: 238.40842
- Similarity Product: 127.99819428798678

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

Dataset: test