PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16297848
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["264", "045100"]

Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a midsole for an article of footwear includes placing first and second preforms in a first mold, closing and heating the first mold to produce a midsole preform with a peripheral preform flange, removing the midsole preform from the first mold and allowing it to further expand and cool, placing the midsole preform in a second mold, with a volume of a midsole recess of the second mold being less than a volume of the midsole preform, and a volume of a peripheral recess of the second mold being less than a volume of the peripheral preform flange, closing the second mold thereby compressing the midsole preform and the peripheral preform flange, and heating the second mold to form a midsole with a peripheral flange, allowing the second mold to cool, opening the second mold, and cutting away a peripheral flange of the midsole.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the mold is a two-piece mold including a first mold piece with a first mold recess and a first peripheral overflow recess, and a second mold piece with a second mold recess and a second peripheral overflow recess, the first and second mold recesses cooperating to define the mold recess, the first and second peripheral overflow recesses cooperating to define the peripheral overflow recess, and wherein closing the filled mold comprises aligning the first and second mold recesses and bringing the first and second mold pieces into contact with one another.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.38298
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15353903', '13833140', '14812479', '13206899', '12552778']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.824847220985126
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5398376742817144
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7963462663147849
- Mean Citation Score: 313.59989
- Max Citation Score: 379.66306
- Similarity Product: 297.788011226933

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

Dataset: test