PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16053371
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["036", "029000"]

Abstract:
An article of footwear is disclosed that comprises a sole structure having a bladder element that includes multiple cushioning components. Each cushioning component includes an enclosed fluid-filled cavity. The cushioning components may include a first cushioning component and a second cushioning component. The first cushioning component has a single central opening extending completely therethrough, and a continuous fluid-filled cavity surrounding the central opening. The second cushioning component has multiple connecting features positioned inward of an outer periphery of the second cushioning component. The connecting features connect a first side of the second cushioning component to a second side of the second cushioning component opposite the first side. A method of manufacturing an article of footwear with such cushioning components is disclosed.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of manufacturing a sole structure of an article of footwear comprising:\n forming a bladder element having multiple cushioning components each including a fluid-filled cavity; wherein the bladder element has a first polymeric sheet and a second polymeric sheet that together form the cushioning components, and the cushioning components include: a first cushioning component having:\n a single central opening extending completely therethrough; and \n a continuous fluid-filled cavity surrounding the central opening; and \n a second cushioning component having multiple connecting features positioned inward of an outer periphery of the second cushioning component, the multiple connecting features connecting a first side of the second cushioning component to a second side of the second cushioning component opposite the first side; wherein the first and second cushioning components are spaced apart from one another so that an outer surface of the first cushioning component is substantially decoupled from an outer surface of the second cushioning component.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26316
- Patent Class: 36.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14931287', '15685261', '14931280', '15093104', '14179956']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6782646773777674
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.468037177690059
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6572419274089967
- Mean Citation Score: 258.38142600000003
- Max Citation Score: 306.8353
- Similarity Product: 295.8562352997065

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test