PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866964
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["052", "024000"]

Abstract:
A snow guard for a standing seam metal roof, which may impede falling or melting snow and ice and may prevent gutters from being overwhelmed by falling or melting snow and ice. Such a snow guard may be fitted to the standing seams of the roof by screws or similar fasteners. The snow guard may prevent leakage through the holes created by the fasteners, may aesthetically blend into the material of the standing seam metal roof system, and may function as a base for scaffold systems. Such a snow guard may also add strength to the panels on which it is disposed. Finally, such a snow guard may also have the benefit of being easy to install.

Claim (Index 4):
The snow guard of  claim 2 , wherein the lower edge portion comprises at least one of a beaded edge, a flat-hemmed edge, an open-hemmed edge, or a multiple-hemmed edge.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96875
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14670925', '14698905', '11605240', '10898552', '10784812']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8546680501866164
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5164861436884518
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8208498595367999
- Mean Citation Score: 312.139076
- Max Citation Score: 328.53812
- Similarity Product: 261.13672040685174

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

Dataset: test