PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15989257
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["036", "103000"]

Abstract:
An article of footwear may include an upper and a sole structure secured to the upper. The sole structure includes a midsole, an outsole secured to the midsole, and one or more plates positioned within the midsole. Each of the plates has a downwardly-facing concave side and an upwardly-facing concave side. The downwardly-concave side may be positioned on a medial side (or a lateral side) of the footwear, and the upwardly-concave side may be positioned on the lateral side (or the medial side) of the footwear. The undulating medio-lateral configuration of each plate may increase the overall support provided to a wearer's foot during a side-to-side or “banking” movement.

Claim (Index 15):
A sole structure for an article of footwear, the upper including a lower surface, the sole structure comprising:\n a midsole including a first polymeric material, the midsole having a lateral edge, a medial edge opposite the lateral edge, and a lower midsole surface; an outsole with upper and lower outsole surfaces, the upper outsole surface secured to the lower midsole surface, the outsole including a second polymeric material, the lower outsole surface defining a ground-engaging portion of the article of footwear located opposite from the upper outsole surface; and a plate disposed within the midsole and having an undulating medio-lateral curvature, the plate including a third polymeric material and having a rectilinear longitudinal cross-section extending between fore and aft edges of the plate, the plate including a first lateral side with a downward-facing concavity terminating at a first lateral edge, a second lateral side with an upward-facing concavity terminating at a second lateral edge, and an inflection region interposed between and connecting the first and second lateral sides, the first lateral side being positioned between the second lateral side and the medial or lateral edge of the midsole, wherein the first lateral edge is positioned below a horizontal plane substantially parallel to the lower outsole surface and passing through the inflection region, and the second lateral edge is positioned above the horizontal plane passing through the inflection region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10169
- Patent Class: 36.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14447360', '14811595', '14811557', '14811623', '12985675']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7243574179918826
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5595582795315525
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7078775041458496
- Mean Citation Score: 413.58979199999993
- Max Citation Score: 521.8366
- Similarity Product: 464.8422762619256

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