PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16013498
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["052", "409000"]

Abstract:
A siding assembly includes a siding panel and an insulating panel securable to a wall using a siding attachment member. The siding attachment member includes openings extending therethrough in equally spaced relationship that align with slots formed in the foam panel. The spacing between centers of the foam panel slots corresponds to the spacing between centers of the openings in the attachment member. The slots in the foam panels are sufficiently wide to allow the foam panel to slide relative to the fasteners securing the foam panel to a wall. The siding attachment member may comprise a bracket with legs projecting rearward from a web and a siding support shoulder formed at a lower end of the web. Lines of weakness in the web and aligned notches in the shoulder facilitate cutting the bracket to a desired length. Reinforcement ribs are formed in the bracket web.

Claim (Index 13):
A siding panel assembly comprising:\n a siding attachment member having a plurality of fastener receiving openings extending through the siding attachment member in equally spaced relationship, longitudinally across the siding attachment member; a siding panel having means for coupling the siding panel to the siding attachment member which permits lateral sliding movement of the siding panel relative to the siding attachment member; a rigid foam insulating panel having a plurality of elongate slots extending therethrough in equally spaced relationship, longitudinally across the rigid foam insulating panel wherein a spacing between centers of selected ones of the elongate slots corresponds to a distance between centers of selected fastener receiving openings in said siding attachment member; said siding attachment member is positionable in overlapping relationship with said rigid foam insulating panel such that said selected fastener receiving openings in said siding attachment member extend in overlapping alignment with selected ones of the elongate slots formed in the rigid foam insulating panel; said elongate slots in said rigid foam insulating panel are sized relative to fasteners driven through said fastener receiving openings in said siding attachment member to permit said rigid foam insulating panel to slide laterally relative to fasteners driven through overlappingly aligned fastener receiving openings in said siding attachment member and elongate slots in said rigid foam insulating panel; wherein said siding attachment member comprises a siding attachment bracket which includes a generally vertically extending web through which said plurality of fastener receiving openings extend and at least one support leg extending rearwardly from said web; wherein said means for coupling said siding panel to said siding attachment member comprises a siding support shoulder including a horizontal leg and a vertical leg, wherein said horizontal leg is connected to said web at a first end and extends forwardly from said web and ends at a distal end and said vertical leg extends downwardly from said distal end of said horizontal leg; and wherein: a plurality of vertically extending score lines are formed in the vertically extending web in equally spaced relationship; a plurality of notches are formed in the vertical leg and horizontal leg of the siding support shoulder wherein each of the plurality of notches is axially aligned with a respective one of the plurality of vertically extending score lines formed in the vertically extending web.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12192730', '11683363', '13271652', '10688105', '12367693']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8299554557726212
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5106166694350874
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7980215771388679
- Mean Citation Score: 274.44464000000005
- Max Citation Score: 322.68478
- Similarity Product: 273.6882552536011

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

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