PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16409970
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["066", "177000"]

Abstract:
A shoe includes a knit upper and a sole secured to the upper. The knit upper has a wingtip pattern knit into the knit upper.

Claim (Index 21):
A method of manufacturing an article of footwear having a knitted upper and a sole, the method comprising:\n knitting with a knitting machine to form a knitted element of the upper such that the knitted element is of a unitary one-piece construction comprising a knitted upper heel region, a knitted upper lateral midfoot region, a knitted upper medial midfoot region, a knitted upper metatarsal region, a knitted upper lateral ball region, a knitted upper medial ball region, and a knitted upper toe region, the knitted upper metatarsal region including an upper lateral metatarsal region and an upper medial metatarsal region, the knitted element having an upper lateral side region and an upper medial side region, the upper lateral side region including the upper lateral midfoot region, the upper lateral metatarsal region and the upper lateral ball region, the upper medial side region including the upper medial midfoot region, the upper medial metatarsal region and the upper medial ball region, the knitted element comprising a first area of a jersey stitch knit and a second area of a pointelle stitch knit, the first area being at least in the upper toe region, the second area being at least in the upper lateral and medial metatarsal regions, the first area having a rear boundary, the second area having a forward boundary, the rear boundary of the first area and the forward boundary of the second area being coincident and coextensive with each other and defining a boundary line between the first and second areas; attaching the sole to the upper; the upper toe region being seamlessly knitted with the upper medial and lateral ball regions during the knitting step; the upper medial and lateral ball regions being seamlessly knitted with the knitted upper metatarsal region during the knitting step; the knitted upper metatarsal region being seamlessly knitted with the upper lateral and medial midfoot regions during the knitting step; the first and second areas being knitted during the knitting step.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 74.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58824
- Patent Class: 66.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15205672', '15284780', '14292226', '15005113', '14657379']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7290698254621103
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6229161794033288
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7184544608562322
- Mean Citation Score: 384.837032
- Max Citation Score: 632.89716
- Similarity Product: 609.4153819572043

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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