PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959817
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["404", "038000"]

Abstract:
A landscaping block having a block body with at least a first side surface, a second side surface, a third side surface and a fourth side surface, and opposed and substantially parallel top and bottom surfaces. The patio block having at least one spacer projection extending outwardly from each of the at least first, second, third and fourth side surfaces. The patio block having at least one spacer locator positioned along each one of the first, second, third and fourth side surfaces. The at least one spacer locator positioned along each side surface has a retaining surface shaped to receive a spacer projection, at least a portion of the retaining surface extending outwardly from the side surface.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of making a patio comprising:\n providing a plurality of patio blocks, the patio blocks having a block body with opposed top and bottom surfaces, and at least a first side surface, a second side surface, a third side surface and a fourth side surface each extending from the top surface to the bottom surface, each of the at least first, second, third and fourth side surfaces having an irregular contour such that top and bottom edges along the top and bottom surfaces where the at least first, second, third and fourth side surfaces extend also have an irregular contour, at least one spacer projection positioned along each of the at least first, second, third and fourth side surfaces and extending outwardly from each side surface and at least one spacer locator positioned along each one of the first, second, third and fourth side surfaces, the at least one spacer locator having a retaining surface shaped to receive a spacer projection, at least a portion of the retaining surface extending outwardly from the side surface; and forming a patio by positioning the patio blocks with a side surface of a first patio block laid adjacent to a side surface of a second patio block such that the at least one spacer projection of the side surface of the first patio block is accepted and retained into the at least one spacer locator of the second adjacent patio block preventing displacement of the first patio block relative to the adjacent second patio block and creating a joint between the first patio block and the second patio block, the width of the joint having variable dimensions along the length of the adjacent portions of the irregularly contoured top edges of the first and second patio block.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.93182
- Patent Class: 404.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15215109', '14190630', '15793265', '15051055', '13424673']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6958305278663816
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.586355560916744
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6848830311714178
- Mean Citation Score: 273.75243
- Max Citation Score: 479.98633
- Similarity Product: 477.8741541317725

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

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