PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16030084
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["052", "557000"]

Abstract:
Herein disclosed is an asphalt roofing shingle, adapted to be laid up in courses on a roof, comprising an upper headlap portion, a lower tab portion, vertically spaced apart upper and lower edges, laterally spaced apart right and left edges and top and bottom surfaces. The bottom surface is configured to be laid up on a roof facing the roof and the tab portion of the top surface is configured to be substantially weather-exposed when laid up on a roof. The upper headlap portion is configured to be substantially covered by the tab portion of roofing elements in a next-overlying course of roofing elements when laid up on a roof. The upper headlap portion further comprises a plurality of parallel, evenly laterally spaced, first markings, the first markings being useful, at least, for aligning adjacent shingles, cutting books of shingles, forming starter shingles from full shingles and forming a grid of shingles without external measuring devices.

Claim (Index 1):
An asphalt shingle designed to be laid up in courses on a roof comprising:\n an upper headlap portion, a lower tab portion, vertically spaced apart upper and lower edges, laterally spaced apart right and left edges, and top and bottom surfaces, having a lateral dimension or width and a vertical dimension or height; and a plurality of parallel, laterally-spaced vertical markings disposed across said top surface; wherein the lateral dimension of the shingle is greater than the to vertical dimension of the shingle, wherein said bottom surface is configured to be laid up on a roof facing the roof, wherein said tab portion is configured to be substantially weather-exposed when laid up on a roof and wherein said upper headlap portion is configured to be substantially covered by the tab portion of roofing elements in a next-overlying course of roofing elements when laid up on a roof; and wherein, when the shingle is run up a rake of a roof with said upper and lower edges running parallel to the rake with either said upper or lower edge abutting said rake, said vertical markings are configured to act as headlap alignment marks and run perpendicularly to the rake of the roof, defining the positions on which courses of shingles should be abutted, and wherein, when the shingle is run along an eave of a roof with said upper and lower edges running parallel to the eave, the plurality of parallel, laterally-spaced vertical markings are also configured to act as sidelap alignment marks and run perpendicularly to the eave of the roof, defining the positions on which subsequent courses of shingles should be abutted.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26316
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15365201', '14626436', '10664552', '13155736', '15492312']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8590470257940438
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6458139695952444
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8377237201741639
- Mean Citation Score: 467.707412
- Max Citation Score: 664.9164
- Similarity Product: 534.6675450679778

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