Boots, shoes, and leggings inventions 02/07

20070039201 - Heated shoe insole: The invention relates to an apparatus for warming feet. The invention includes a flexible and compressible insole that can be removable or integral to boots, shoes, or other footwear. The entire apparatus is battery powered allowing it to be portable and lightweight enough to be comfortable. The battery can be... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070039202 - Shoe with upper and heel developed ventilation: The present invention relates to shoe construction to alleviate perspiration of user's feet and to get a more confortable walking: inner ventilation air is obtained mainly both by using a suitable special shaped inner foamed oversole, with interconnected open chambers, porous cushioned, memory retentent, with one or more hollows, under... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070039203 - Article of footwear and method of manufacturing same: An article of footwear includes an upper having a forefoot portion, a midfoot portion, a heel portion, and a pocket positioned beneath the forefoot portion. A first midsole portion is received in the pocket. An outer sole assembly is secured to the upper. The outer sole assembly is visible from... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070039204 - Article of footwear having midsole with support pillars and method of manufacturing same: An article of footwear includes an upper, a sole assembly, and a support assembly positioned in the sole assembly and including a plurality of pillars. Each pillar includes an outer layer and an inner layer of cushioning material contained with the outer layer.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070039205 - Method and system for identifying a kit of footwear components used to provide customized footwear to a consumer: A method, system, and computer program product used for creating a custom footwear product. The method on which the system, and computer program product are based includes inputting in a retail store information about a characteristic of a consumer that relates to the consumer's foot, and receiving in the retail... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070039206 - Footwear outsole including star shapes: A footwear outsole includes a base portion defining a tread attachment surface, and a plurality of tread members. The tread members are coupled to the tread attachment surface and protrude away from the tread attachment surface to define a tread member height. Each tread member includes a plurality of pointed... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070039207 - Pant protector: An apparatus and method for protecting the fabric at the bottom of a pant leg. In particular, the pant protector prevents the bottom of a pant leg from slipping between a person's heel and the shoe bed when wearing open-backed shoes. The pant protector comprises an anklet, which is worn... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070039208 - Adaptable shoe having an expandable sole assembly: An adaptable shoe includes an upper portion and a sole assembly connected to the upper portion to provide a shoe cavity. The sole assembly includes a first sole segment, a second sole segment positioned adjacent to and substantially coplanar with the first sole segment, and a deformable member connecting the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070039209 - Method and system for providing a customized shoe: A system for providing a shoe customized to a person includes a plurality of shoe cavity units each having an upper portion and a sole assembly coupled to the upper portion to form a shoe cavity configured to accommodate a foot. Also included is a plurality of interchangeable first shoe... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070039210 - Footwear for hostile environments: The present invention provides articles of footwear for use by firefighters in different activities such as emergency and rescue situations, as well as daily activity in and around the firehouse. Integrated handles enable the firefighter to quickly and easily put the article of footwear on while minimizing the possibility of... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070039211 - Orthotic insert having recess for therapeutic patch: The present invention provides an orthotic insert for a shoe, the orthotic insert comprising a heel region, an arch region and a recess for receiving a therapeutic patch for the treatment of a shoe wearer's foot, wherein the therapeutic patch provides foot treatment in the form of continuous electromagnetic energy... Agent: Peter K Hahn Luce, Forward, Hamilton, Scripps, LLP.

20070033831 - Article of footwear with spherical support elements: An article of footwear includes an upper and a sole assembly having an upper plate and a lower plate spaced from the upper plate. At least one spherical support element is positioned between the upper plate and the lower plate. Each spherical element includes an inner spherical member and an... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070033830 - Elastic shoe: The present invention disclosed one of a pair of elastic shoes including a shoe body having a heel portion, and an elastic mechanism mounted on the heel portion of the shoe body. The elastic mechanism includes a plurality of air cells, and a plurality of plastic sleeves. The relatively higher... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070033832 - Cushioning sole for an article of footwear: A hollow sole is formed within the sole of a shoe wherein a top component having a flat portion and an outer wall is adhered to a bottom component wherein the depth of the outer wall defines an enclosed space between the top and bottom components. The outer wall of... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20070033833 - Article of footwear with midsole having multiple layers: An upper for an article of footwear includes an upper and a sole assembly secured to the upper. The sole assembly includes an upper layer formed of a first material and a lower layer positioned beneath the upper layer and formed of a second material. At least one finger extends... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070033835 - Insole arrangement; footwear with insole arrangement; and, method of preparation: A footwear member with a desired insole arrangement is described. The footwear arrangement comprises a footwear shell including an insole insert arrangement, in which the insole insert arrangement includes: an insole base structure with a heel cut therein; and, a heel cushion arrangement positioned in the insole arrangement with a... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070033834 - Shoe insole: An insole providing cushioning and control of foot motion. The insole includes a stability cradle and a number of pods on the underside of the insole core or base. Some of the pods have different material properties selected to help control foot motion.... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070033836 - Article of footwear including a fastening system: An article of footwear including a fastening system is disclosed. The fastening system is adjustable and includes portions that can be directly attached to the article. The article can be made of a material that is capable of engaging portions of the fastening system. The fastening system can also include... Agent: Plumsea Law Group, LLC

20070033837 - Outsole with anti-slip tread: A footwear outsole has a generally planar outwardly facing contact surface which has a plurality of spaced-apart conduits passing through it. The conduits have opposed ends which open through the sidewall of the outsole. The conduits open to the contact surface of the outsole through slots which have a width... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20070033838 - Intelligent sneaker insole: A shoe wear indicator device for use in combination with athletic shoes for monitoring and reporting qualitative wear and tear on athletic shoes. The shoe wear indicator device includes an insole housing a power supply/user interface unit, a microchip, a sensor unit, and an interface cable. The shoe wear indicator... Agent: Jay H. Maioli Cooper & Dunham LLP

20070022627 - Footwear structure with textile upper member: Articles of footwear include a textile upper member with an exterior constructed from knitted textile material, the exterior including a region with stability ribs and a second unribbed region. The region(s) having stability ribs may be located, for example: along a lateral midfoot side of the upper member; along a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070022628 - Ventilated shoe sole: A ventilated shoe sole is disclosed. This unique shoe sole is constructed with an elastic mid sole containing multiple cylindrical air spaces and multiple air vents arranged in parallel lines pattern across the sole, where the air vents communicates with their respective cylindrical air spaces underneath to allow air circulation... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070022629 - Running sandal: A sandal for receiving a foot of a wearer, the foot having a heel and a forefoot including toes. The sandal includes an upper, a midsole assembly and an outsole component. The midsole assembly includes a main body and a support component that may include a slightly curved forefoot plate... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070022630 - Arch support insole: An insole for insertion into footwear, comprising a mid-foot portion and a heel portion; the mid-foot portion and heel portion being formed by a cushioning layer of a resilient material having a first hardness and which provides a cushioning function; and a cushioning insert comprised within a recess in said... Agent: Schering-plough Corporation Patent Department (k-6-1, 1990)

20070022631 - Footwear cushioning device: A cushioning device for a footwear sole has multiple vertically directed columns. One column is located on a medial side and another is located on a lateral side, and are adjacent and spaced apart from each other. The medial column has the relatively larger volumetric property relative to the volumetric... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP

20070022632 - Massaging footbed having sole with pattern of waves and method of making same: Footbeds that are deformable, resilient, capable of exerting a massaging effect on the human foot sole and useful in various kinds of footwear have an upper sole configurated in the form of a continuous pattern of undulating waves produced by the action of a machine that is constructed with (a)... Agent: M.h. Sears Law Firm Chartered Suite 800

20070022633 - Shoe with optimal mass distribution: Disclosed is a shoe including an upper for receiving a foot and a sole unit with a heel region and forefoot region, wherein an additional weight is arranged in at least one of the forefoot region and the heel region of the sole unit to stabilize the foot against at... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator