PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16193630
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["428", "335000"]

Abstract:
Candy color metallic paint finishes can be formed or repaired by applying to a substrate a colored liquid base coating composition containing a colored metal oxide-coated nontransparent silver dollar aluminum flake pigment and optional additional colored pigments or dyes dispersed in a first hardenable binder to form a reflective colored base layer that hides the primed substrate and has a sparkling metallic appearance. A colored liquid intermediate coating composition containing a colored pigment or dye dispersed in a second hardenable binder is applied to the base layer to form a colored intermediate layer that increases the color saturation of incident light reflected from the base layer. The intermediate layer can be overcoated with a liquid clearcoat composition. The completed finish can replicate an original equipment manufacturer multilayer candy color metallic finish, while providing ease of application, low sensitivity to layer thickness variation, and low mottle.

Claim (Index 26):
A method for repairing a candy color metallic paint finish on a portion of an article, the method comprising steps of:\n a. providing an article having a hardened candy color metallic paint finish comprising a base layer containing aluminum flake pigment dispersed in a first hardened binder and having a sparkling metallic appearance, the base layer being overcoated with a translucent colored layer containing a dye dispersed in a second hardened binder and having a thickness at least twice that of the base layer; b. repairing the candy color finish on a portion and less than all of such article by applying to such portion or a replacement part corresponding to such portion a colored liquid base coating composition comprising a colored metal oxide-coated nontransparent silver dollar aluminum flake pigment and one or more additional colored pigments or dyes having a hue like that of the translucent colored layer, dispersed in a third hardenable binder; c. at least partially hardening the base coating composition to form a reflective colored base layer that hides such portion or replacement part and has a sparkling metallic appearance; d. applying to the at least partially hardened colored base layer a colored liquid intermediate coating composition comprising a colored pigment or dye dispersed in a fourth hardenable binder and at least partially hardening the intermediate coating composition to form a colored intermediate layer that increases the color saturation of incident light reflected from the reflective colored base layer; e. at least partially hardening the intermediate coating composition to form a colored intermediate layer that increases the color saturation of incident light reflected from the reflective colored base layer; f. optionally applying to the at least partially hardened intermediate layer a liquid clearcoat composition comprising a transparent fifth hardenable binder; and g. hardening the applied compositions to provide a multilayer candy color metallic finish.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76744
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12743251', '11543663', '11417162', '11543675', '11543621']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8998272490112833
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4970475025987125
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8595492743700262
- Mean Citation Score: 227.94047200000003
- Max Citation Score: 232.61836
- Similarity Product: 155.3228406034374

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

Dataset: test