PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15983622
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["036", "028000"]

Abstract:
Sole structures for articles of footwear, including athletic footwear, include: (a) a lightweight foam midsole component for supporting the foot; and (b) a plurality of heavier and/or denser cage components covering selected areas of the midsole component. Spaces are provided between the cage components. These spaces may be sized, shaped, and oriented to define and/or correspond to flexion lines of the foot and/or to produce a more natural flex motion to the sole. The soles additionally may include one or more outsole components, e.g., on bottom surface(s) of the cage component(s) and/or the foam midsole. These sole structures may be engaged with an upper to form a shoe. The uppers may include one or more lace receiving openings supported by elongated wire or textile components. Methods of making footwear including such uppers and/or sole structures also are described.

Claim (Index 20):
The sole structure according to  claim 11 , wherein at least a portion of an outer side edge of at least one of the plurality of cage components includes a billowed structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87356
- Patent Class: 36.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13605681', '15012464', '15292844', '15090052', '13804742']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7618665560516081
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5229952335854108
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7379794238049884
- Mean Citation Score: 412.461562
- Max Citation Score: 472.2544
- Similarity Product: 311.9951578714372

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

Dataset: test