PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16066571
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["264", "033000"]

Abstract:
Features for formliners to form a decorative pattern in a curable material and methods of using the same are disclosed. An improved formliner is disclosed with substantially seamlessly connecting components that reduces the need for using adhesives for interconnecting a plurality of formliners in a pattern. Further, the formliner is configured to reduce and/or substantially eliminate visible seams in order to create a more natural appearance in a finished product of the curable material.

Claim (Index 1):
A formliner for creating a pattern in curable material, the formliner comprising:\n a cell comprising a contact surface configured to face curable material in use, the contact surface comprising a decorative pattern to be created in the curable material, the decorative pattern comprising a varying depth; a rib system comprising a plurality of ribs extending along the cell and forming at least a part of a boundary of the cell, the plurality of ribs comprising:\n an overlapping section connected with the cell and comprising a first rib edge, the overlapping section configured to face the curable material in use; and \n an overlapped section connected with the cell and comprising a second rib edge, at least a portion of the overlapping section configured to overlay onto at least a portion of the overlapped section; and \n a channel extending along at least a portion of the boundary of the cell, the channel extending into the cell at least an extent of the varying depth of the decorative pattern at the boundary of the cell, wherein at least a portion of the first rib edge extends into the channel when the at least a portion of the overlapping section overlays onto the at least a portion of the overlapped section, and wherein the second rib edge extends along the boundary of the cell and toward a support surface to provide structural support to the overlapped section and the overlapping section when the at least a portion of the overlapping section overlays onto the at least a portion of the overlapped section with the formliner in use.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12850510', '14137733', '12238294', '12406896', '14664053']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.820509285871178
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5564274549207807
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7941011027761382
- Mean Citation Score: 417.073564
- Max Citation Score: 436.82834
- Similarity Product: 335.7546403717161

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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