PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16294758
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["002", "312000"]

Abstract:
An adjustable maternity pant expander is provided for bridging the gap in the waistband of a pair of pants worn by a pregnant woman. The pant expander comprises a strip, with tapered ends in some embodiments. The pant expander uses Velcro and/or buttons to fasten under or over belt loops on pants worn by a user.

Claim (Index 7):
A method for expanding a waistband of a pair of pants, said method comprising:\n providing an open gap in a waistband of a pair of pants, said open gap comprising a fly portion of the pair of pants, said waistband further comprising a first belt loop positioned proximal to a first side of the open gap, and a second belt loop positioned proximal to a second side of the open gap; providing a pant expander device comprising: a flexible strip having an upper side, an underside, a first end, a second end, and a mid-portion extending therebetween, said flexible strip further having a first loop portion interposed between the mid portion and the first end, and a second loop portion interposed between the mid portion and the second end, the first and second loop portions each having an adjustable length; a first hook fastener affixed to the first end on the underside; a second hook fastener affixed to the second end on the underside; a loop fastener affixed to the mid portion on the underside, said loop fastener having a first half and a second half configured to selectively engage the first and second hook fasteners; and bridging the open gap by securing the first hook fastener to the first half of the loop fastener, and securing the second hook fastener to the second half of the loop fastener, such that the first loop portion contains the first belt loop, and the second loop portion contains the second belt loop.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.36364
- Patent Class: 2.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14636688', '12218569', '14027232', '12657538', '11620899']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6466341708434112
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4679647342953809
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6287672271886082
- Mean Citation Score: 189.862084
- Max Citation Score: 196.62997
- Similarity Product: 151.24559829977332

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

Dataset: test