PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16002130
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["362", "488000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle trim part having a layered, decorative finish is provided. The part includes a polymeric substrate, a decorative layer overlying the polymeric substrate and a light-transmissive, protective layer overlying and protecting the decorative layer. The protective layer includes a front surface and a rear surface having a surface portion with a translucent surface finish. The decorative layer has an opening extending from a rear surface of the decorative layer to a front surface of the decorative layer and aligned with the translucent surface finish. Both a cross section of the opening at the front surface of the decorative layer and the translucent surface finish are sized and shaped to form a light pattern which is visible at the front of the part when artificial lighting illuminates the translucent surface finish from the rear of the part.

Claim (Index 21):
A vehicle trim part comprising:\n a polymeric substrate; a decorative layer overlying the polymeric substrate; and a light-transmissive, protective layer overlying and protecting the decorative layer, the protective layer including a front surface and a rear surface having a surface portion with a translucent surface finish to conceal illumination apparatus rearward of the part, the decorative layer having an opening extending from a rear surface of the decorative layer to a front surface of the decorative layer and aligned with the translucent surface finish, wherein both a cross section of the opening at the front surface of the decorative layer and the translucent surface finish are sized and shaped to define a light pattern which is visible at the front of the part when artificial lighting illuminates the translucent surface finish from the rear of the part, the polymeric substrate, decorative layer and protective layer being molded as a laminate in a unitary molding operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68519
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14603401', '14087579', '15637517', '14603403', '14603397']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8423218945531122
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4807472905792455
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8061644341557256
- Mean Citation Score: 227.77625000000003
- Max Citation Score: 237.47444
- Similarity Product: 185.33376701081988

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