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 1):
A floor panel for forming a floor covering, wherein the floor panel is rectangular and longitudinal and comprises a pair of long edges and a pair of short edges;\n wherein the floor panel is provided with coupling parts at the long edges and at the short edges; wherein the coupling parts at the long edges and at the short edges are made in one piece with the floor panel; wherein the coupling parts at the long edges are configured so as to allow an assembly of two of such floor panels by means of a movement of rotation; wherein the coupling parts at the long edges are configured so as to provide in a coupled condition of two of such floor panels an interlocking in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the floor panels as well as in a direction perpendicular to the coupled edges and parallel to the plane of the floor panels; wherein the coupling part at the one long edge comprises a tongue; wherein the coupling part at the other long edge comprises a groove; wherein the groove is bordered by an upper lip and a lower lip extending past the free end of the upper lip; wherein the tongue has an upper side working together with a lower side of the upper lip in a coupled condition of two of such floor panels so as to provide the interlocking in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the floor panels; wherein the lower lip comprises past the free end of the upper lip an interlocking part having an inwardly directed contact surface; wherein the inwardly directed contact surface works together with a contact surface at the edge with the tongue in a coupled condition of two of such floor panels so as to provide the interlocking in a direction perpendicular to the coupled edges and parallel the plane of the floor panels; wherein the coupling parts at the short edges are configured so as to provide in a coupled condition of two of such floor panels an interlocking between the floor panels in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the floor panels as well as in a direction perpendicular to the coupled edges and parallel to the plane of the floor panels; wherein the coupling part at the one short edge comprises a lip at the top side of the floor panel; wherein the lip at the one short edge extends beyond the lower side of the floor panel; wherein the lip at the one short edge has a downward directed recess; wherein the coupling part at the other short edge comprises an upward directed protrusion configured to cooperate with the downward directed recess in a coupled condition of two of such panels so as to realize the interlocking in a direction perpendicular to the coupled edges and parallel to the plane of the floor panels; wherein the downward directed recess is bordered at its upper side by a side of the lip at the one short edge; and wherein at least a part of said side of the lip bordering the downward directed recess slopes downwards in the direction towards the center of the floor panel.

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): 0.8859715388966681
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5669214921167655
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8540665342186778
- Mean Citation Score: 370.60061
- Max Citation Score: 376.67795
- Similarity Product: 351.6091281785608

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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