PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16006290
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["052", "489200"]

Abstract:
A joiner clip for securing panels to a substrate is provided that includes a sheet of material that has a first portion, a second portion, a first face, and a second face. On the first face, a first anchoring cleat is located in the first portion and a second anchoring cleat is located in the second portion. A spaced guide is positioned between the first portion and the second portion of the sheet on the first face. A mounting hole is formed through the sheet and is positioned colinear with the spacer guide. A fastener from the second face secures the joiner clip and panels to a vertical stud substrate. A construction unit including the joiner clip for securing panels of material to a vertical stud substrate is also provided. A butt joint is readily formed between two secured panels.

Claim (Index 18):
A construction unit comprising:\n a vertical stud substrate; a joiner clip for securing panels to the substrate comprising: a sheet of material, having a first portion, a second portion, a first face, and an oppositely opposed second face; a first anchoring cleat defined between two parallel through slits disposed in the first portion of said sheet, said first anchoring cleat forming a first point protruding from the first face of said sheet; a second anchoring cleat defined between two parallel through slits disposed in the second portion of said sheet, said second anchoring cleat forming a second point protruding from the first face of said sheet; a spacer guide defined between two parallel through slits protruding from the first face of said sheet, said spacer guide positioned between the first portion and the second portion of said sheet; and a mounting hole formed through said sheet, said mounting hole positioned colinear with said spacer guide; and a first panel and a second panel, said first panel pierced by the first point of the first anchoring cleat, said second panel pierced by the second point of the second anchoring cleat, and the spacer guide positioned between the first panel and the second panel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69643
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13940855', '14127793', '10568787', '14116401', '13197565']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8073207142603395
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5200383598489688
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7785924788192025
- Mean Citation Score: 217.55399
- Max Citation Score: 338.71088
- Similarity Product: 260.05513862445827

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

Dataset: test