PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933315
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["428", "160000"]

Abstract:
A flooring panel is provided with a quick-release adhesive sheet such that the flooring panel can be quickly attached to a support surface and removed therefrom. More particularly, the flooring panel includes a top floor layer attached or laminated to the adhesive sheet, which underlies the floor layer. The top flooring layer can be any type of flooring material, such as vinyl flooring, real or engineered wood flooring, etc.

Claim (Index 19):
An adhesive layer comprising an elastic layer having an upper side, and a lower side, which is located opposite said upper side of said elastic layer and which defines a lower surface of said elastic layer: and a sealing material applied to substantially the entire surface of said lower side of said elastic layer so to provide said adhesive layer with a self-adhesive property, said elastic layer being made from a foam material and including a plurality of open holes formed in said lower side of said elastic layer, each of said holes having an interior surface and a lower edge, which are formed as part of said foam material, said sealing material coating the interior surfaces and said lower edges of at least some of said holes while maintaining hollow spaces within said at least some of said holes, said sealing material providing a substantially air-tight seal to said interior surfaces and said lower edges of said at least some of said holes such that when said adhesive layer is applied to a support surface, said at least some of said holes apply and maintain suction against the support surface so as to releasably attach said adhesive layer to the support surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 43.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67391
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14285046', '15182814', '12670182', '13061672', '14674376']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8811300228639148
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5045396781912572
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.843470988396649
- Mean Citation Score: 185.066148
- Max Citation Score: 189.52435
- Similarity Product: 131.57512000029385

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