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Boots, shoes, and leggings November recently filed with US Patent Office 11/10

20100293814 - Articles prepared using recycled materials and methods of preparation thereof: The present invention is directed to articles of manufacture having at least a portion prepared using recycled material, including but not limited recycled rubber or other polymeric materials. The articles may incorporate the recycled materials in a granulated form. In specific embodiments, the article comprises an article of footwear (i.e.,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20100293815 - Midfoot insert construction: An article of footwear is provided and includes an outsole structure having a forefoot portion, a heel portion, and a midfoot portion disposed between the forefoot portion and the heel portion. The midfoot portion includes a series of ribs cooperating to define a series of pockets disposed between the forefoot... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C (nike)

20100293811 - Midsole for a running shoe: A midsole for a running shoe is described, which shoe comprises a rear foot area (150) with a bottom heel portion (20) and an upper heel portion (142). The upper heel portion (142) is moulded in one piece with the bottom heel portion and extended vertically to cover the tuberosity... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20100293816 - Sole for a shoe, in particular for a running shoe: A shoe sole (7) consisting of a midsole (1) and an outsole (3) consisting of discrete outsole elements. The midsole (1) has on the side facing the outsole a multiple of flex grooves (27, 29, 34, 51, 53, 55, 57, 63) crossing each other and creating pads (26, 28, 30,... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20100293817 - Soft step top lift for shoes and method thereof: A soft top lift member for a shoe heel wherein the top lift member is made by mixing a filler carbon material with a thermoplastic elastomer to form a filled elastomer. The filled elastomer is then formed into a top lift member for a shoe heel by using an injection... Agent: Husch Blackwell LLP

20100293818 - Carbide studs for stability and motive traction of footwear: The present invention provides a traction device for a terrain engaging element. The traction device defines a stud having a head portion and a shank portion extending from the head portion and adapted to be secured into the terrain engaging element. A plurality of carbide pellets are bonded together on... Agent: Briggs And Morgan P.A.

20100293812 - Novel method: A method for treating an item which, in use, is subjected to flexing, to reduce its susceptibility to water penetration over time during use, said method comprising forming a water repellent coating or surface modification on the surface of the item by ionisation or activation technology.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20100293813 - Article of footwear with multiple cleat sizes: An article of footwear including different cleat sizes is disclosed. The article of footwear includes cleats of a first size along the medial side of the outsole and cleats of a second size along the lateral side of the outsole. The cleats also include spherical indentations along their tips. The... Agent: Plumsea Law Group, LLC

20100287788 - Article of footwear with multiple hardnesses and method of manufacture: A method of forming an article of footwear includes injecting a first material into a first cavity of a mold assembly to form a sole assembly, injecting a second material into a second cavity of the mold assembly, a first last being suspended within the second cavity, to form an... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100287795 - An article of footwear: A method of injection moulding a sole or a part of the sole of an article of footwear from an expandable material is disclosed. The method is characterised by forming a mould chamber that has at least a main sub-chamber and at least one other sub-chamber and injecting controlled amounts... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20100287789 - Cushioning mechanism for shoe midsole: A cushioning mechanism for shoe midsole in one embodiment includes a base affixed to an outsole of the shoe and including a front cavity; a pivot member affixed to an insole of the shoe, a front end of the pivot member being pivotably secured to that of the base and... Agent: Sam Chen

20100287796 - Layered sheet material shoe sole insert: Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for manufacturing shoe soles, as well as shoes and shoe soles manufactured using such techniques. In one embodiment, a shoe sole includes: a main structure, made of at least one base material, forming a shape of a shoe sole; and an... Agent: Joseph Swan, A Professional Corporation

20100287790 - Article of footwear having an upper with a structured intermediate layer: An article of footwear and a method of manufacturing the footwear are disclosed. The footwear has an upper and a sole structure. The upper is secured to sole structure and the upper is formed from three layers: a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The second layer... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100287791 - Shoelace locker and shoe with the same: A shoelace locker used in a shoe is provided, which comprises a base portion, a neck portion extending from one end of the base portion and an arm portion extending from the neck portion towards the other end of the base portion. A receiving hole is defined by the arm... Agent: GlobalIPServices

20100287792 - Shoe: In order to provide an athletic shoe that does not get caught even when a strong effort to hold on is made when sliding sideways, and that allows for light footwork, the present invention provides an athletic shoe that has an undersurface of a midsole 22 that is formed with... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20100287793 - Sports boot construction: A sports boot and a method for constructing the sports boot are disclosed comprising a unitary body and an external upper assembly. In the current embodiment, the unitary body has a sole portion, an upper portion, and an ankle cuff portion, and comprises injection-molded ethylene vinyl acetate. The external upper... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20100287794 - Construction for a ski binding and a ski boot: A construction for a ski binding and a ski boot for coupling a ski boot (1)—at its front section to a ski (2), and allowing the lifting of the heel section of the ski boot from the ski. The ski binding has a coupling mechanism (4) for coupling the ski... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100281715 - Pointe shoe for practicing classical dance: The invention relates to a shoe adapted for the practice of classical dance and particularly intended for dancers in dancing schools or professional dancers for performing pointes, that comprises a sole generally made of leather to which is attached a fitting upper (2), particularly made of satin, as well as... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20100281714 - Article of footwear with sipes: A sole structure for an article of footwear is disclosed. The sole structure includes an outsole and a midsole. The outsole includes a tread pattern with a nonlinear configuration. A plurality of sipes are provided on the outsole and the midsole. The plurality of sipes have a nonlinear configuration that... Agent: Plumsea Law Group, LLC

20100281709 - Elastic shoes for cushioning against impact: The invention relates to a shoe provided with an outsole including an anti-distorting portion formed to extend from a rear portion to a front portion of the outsole to prevent the shoe from distorting, a shock-absorbing portion disposed at the rear portion of the outsole to absorb the external force... Agent: Hyun Jong Park Park & Associates Intellectual Property Law LLC

20100281710 - Full suspension footwear: A method and apparatus for enhancing the ability of a human to run and jump with comfort comparable to running barefoot on a trampoline and with control comparable to that of the unaided human form, yet with freedom from ankle-turning roll moments associated with substantial ground contact member (GCM) extension... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100281711 - Article of footwear having a support structure: Articles of footwear having support structures are disclosed. An article of footwear comprises: a midsole having a plurality of cavities formed therein; and a flexible cage member disposed on the midsole and extending across at least one of the plurality of cavities. The flexible cage member includes a plurality of... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20100281712 - Shoe assembly with non-linear viscous liquid: Shoes and shoe sole assemblies and associated methods of manufacture are disclosed herein. One aspect of the invention is directed toward a shoe and shoe sole assembly made of a non-linearly viscous, SEBS block copolymer-based material that becomes more resilient as more energy is applied. The shoe and shoe sole... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20100281716 - Footwear with balancing structure: The inventive subject matter is directed to a sole unit for an item of footwear having a forefoot region, a midfoot region and a rearfoot region. The mid foot region includes a balancing structure having a curved surface profile that rotates around (i) an axis for fore-aft pivoting or balancing... Agent: Ganz Law, P.C.

20100281717 - Top lift assembly for a shoe heel: A dowelled top lift assembly for a shoe heel including an anchor member affixed or molded to a dowel pin member and a top lift member for contacting the walking surface affixed, molded to and encapsulating the anchor member. The anchor member is made of a harder material as compared... Agent: Husch Blackwell LLP

20100281713 - Foldable sandal: A foldable sandal includes a forefoot portion that is adapted to be disposed under a front portion of a wearer's foot, a rear-foot portion that is adapted to be disposed under a rear portion of the wearer's foot, and a folding member outsole that functions as the folding member and... Agent: Maria Pantazes

20100275466 - Vented shoe assembly: A self-ventilating shoe assembly including an upper having an outer layer, a porous middle layer, and an inner layer; and a sole including an outsole; is provided with one or more passageways or chambers connecting between the outsole and the porous middle layer of the upper. One or more external... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20100275468 - Air circulating footbed and method thereof: An air circulating footbed adapted for insertion into a shoe including first and second layers of material shaped and attached to each other so as to define at least two cavities therebetween, the first cavity being disposed generally in the forefoot region of a shoe and the second cavity being... Agent: Husch Blackwell LLP

20100275467 - Insole: The present invention relates to a insole which is mainly made by the following process: reeling off single thread filament from recycled materials such as PET bottle, PET plastic material, waste fabric, recycled yarn into fiber; intermingling plastic fiber with the above fiber of recycled material and then conducting needle... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20100275469 - Insole with reinforcement element: An insole which is substantially adapted to the profile of a human foot and comprises, in the mid-foot region, an elastically deformable arch facing the foot, characterized in that a reinforcement element is located on the side of the insole facing away from the foot in the region of the... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20100275470 - Article of footwear with a perforated midsole: An article of footwear is disclosed that includes an upper and a sole structure secured to the upper. The sole structure includes a midsole element, an upper sheet, and a lower sheet. The midsole element has an upper surface and an opposite lower surface. In addition, the midsole element defines... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100275460 - Footwear outsole: A footwear outsole includes an arch member shiftably assembled on a central part of an upper surface of a outsole body in a longitudinal direction and a rear heel shiftably assembled on a rear part of a lower surface of the outsole body in a longitudinal direction. The footwear outsole... Agent: Christopher Paul Mitchell

20100275471 - Shoe: A shoe having a toe region, a middle region, a heel region, and a multi-layer, multi-density midsole wherein an upper layer of the midsole has a bottom surface that has a longitudinal convexity and a longitudinal concavity, the longitudinal convexity typically occupying a substantial portion of the toe region or... Agent: Kleinberg & Lerner, LLP

20100275461 - Custom fit system with adjustable last and method for custom fitting athletic shoes: A system for custom fitting athletic shoes to an individual wearer includes a foot measurement device, an adjustable footform and an infrared activation chamber. Shoes of a single width for each length size have at least a portion of the upper made of heat malleable material to be custom fitted... Agent: Plumsea Law Group, LLC

20100275462 - Shoe: A shoe, comprising a sole member having an upper surface configured to receive a user's foot and a lower surface configured to contact a support surface; the shoe being flexible so that that shoe can be folded up and stored in a container.... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20100275463 - Soccer shoe ball contacting zones training aid: A soccer training aid thin rubberized tube slips over the front of a soccer shoe with holes in the bottom of the tube for the shoe's cleats to extend down through. Demarked, preferably colored, “strike” or soccer ball contacting zones on the sides and tops of the tube to indicate... Agent: Donald W. Meeker

20100275464 - Footwear: The present application relates to an accessory item for temporary manual attachment to, and temporary manual removal from, an item of footwear, the accessory item comprising a first magnetic material part and a second magnetic material part, the first magnetic material part and the second magnetic material part are arranged... Agent: Ice Miller LLP

20100275465 - Footwear assemblies with removable scent blocking portions and associated methods of use and manufacture: A footwear assembly configured in accordance with one embodiment of the disclosure includes a footwear product, such as a boot, shoe, overshoe, etc., with a scent blocking extension member removably attached to an upper of the footwear product. The extension member can be tightened around the lower leg or ankle... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea