PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874797
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["036", "00300A"]

Abstract:
A suction-preventing footwear includes a boot, a first-vent, a second-vent, a third-vent, a manifold, and a one-way valve. The boot may include a sole having a heel and toe, as well as an upper extending above the sole for covering a user's foot having a vamp, a boot shaft, and a cuff. The first-vent may be affixed to the boot shaft near or on the cuff. The second-vent may be affixed to the top of the vamp, and the third-vent may be affixed to the rear of the boot shaft above the heel of the sole. The manifold may join the first-vent, the second-vent, and the third-vent together, such that each is in fluid communication with the others.

Claim (Index 18):
A method of preventing negative pressure from forming under a boot, the method comprising the steps of:\n providing a footwear comprising a boot configured to accept a foot of a user of the footwear including a sole having a heel and a toe, and an upper extending over the sole configured to cover the foot having a vamp, a boot shaft, and a cuff, a first-vent affixed to the boot shaft of the upper of the boot disposed adjacent to the cuff of the upper of the boot, a second-vent affixed to the vamp of the upper of the boot, a third-vent affixed to a rear of the boot shaft of the upper of the boot adjacent to the heel of the sole of the boot, a manifold joining the first-vent, the second-vent, and the third-vent in fluid communication with each other, and a one-way valve disposed within the manifold configured to allow air to pass from the first-vent to the second-vent and the third-vent; affixing the footwear to the foot of the user; stepping into a deformable material, said deformable material being mud; raising the footwear from the deformable material; opening the one-way valve in response to a pressure differential caused by suction below the footwear; and allowing air to pass from the first-vent to the second-vent and the third-vent, thereby maintaining atmospheric pressure around the second-vent and the third-vent.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38596
- Patent Class: 36.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16063253', '13815049', '11751110', '14168563', '11516859']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6803583794566134
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4422093039861538
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6565434719095674
- Mean Citation Score: 196.304608
- Max Citation Score: 208.06953
- Similarity Product: 165.7856628773546

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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