PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15932657
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["024", "712900"]

Abstract:
A stopper for securing an end of a lace in an article having at least one eyelet, such as a shoe, without having to form an exposed knot. A thin, rigid body includes a series of openings arranged in a row, including a first, middle opening through which the lace is routed from the eyelet, a second opening proximate one end through which the lace is routed from the middle opening, and a third opening proximate an opposite through which the lace is routed from the second opening via the first end of the body, the third opening having a slot-shaped configuration. When tension is applied to the lace, as by a foot being inserted into a shoe, a locking engagement is formed between the lace and stopper and the stopper reacts against the eyelet. The stopper may be hidden from view behind the eyelet stay of a shoe.

Claim (Index 17):
The stopper of  claim 16 , wherein said third through opening further comprises:\n a generally round portion having a diameter sized to permit said lace to pass substantially freely therethrough; and a gap portion connecting said generally round portion and said generally slot-shaped portion, said gap portion being sized to permit said lace to pass laterally therethrough.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23288
- Patent Class: 24.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13815521', '15299555', '14918702', '14565262', '10691179']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8004517666572646
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5140689479915584
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.771813484790694
- Mean Citation Score: 305.398962
- Max Citation Score: 463.1872
- Similarity Product: 273.2805186767578

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