PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16107090
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["066", "176000"]

Abstract:
Article of apparel and a method for manufacturing the article of apparel from a singular knit component are disclosed. According to techniques described herein, multiple tubular knit components may be formed in succession, and as run of knit components, by a standard flat-knit machine. Thereafter, the knit components may be separate from each other, and portions of the knit components may be removed to transform each knit component into an article of apparel.

Claim (Index 16):
A knitted tubular blank for a football jersey, the knitted tubular blank comprising:\n an upper torso region comprised of a first tubular flat knit element; and a lower torso region comprised of a second tubular flat knit element, a third tubular flat knit element, and a fourth tubular flat knit element positioned in a side-by-side arrangement, wherein a first end of each of the second tubular flat knit element, the third tubular flat knit element, and the fourth tubular flat knit element seamlessly extends from the first tubular flat knit element; wherein the upper torso region and the lower torso region are formed of a singular knit construction, and wherein the upper torso region and the lower torso region together form a singular knit component.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76087
- Patent Class: 66.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14244344', '14026384', '13869398', '10198731', '15404589']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.704208649449674
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5425142570795655
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6880392102126631
- Mean Citation Score: 287.6911060000001
- Max Citation Score: 447.42023
- Similarity Product: 345.9781929133225

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

Dataset: test