PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15881630
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["473", "446000"]

Abstract:
The present ball kicking training aid has a substantially rectangular prism-like shape, with at least one kicking face with a kicking instructional graphic that provides guidance to the practicing player on where to kick and how to kick a ball, such as a soccer ball, an American football, or similar. Because it is proper foot planting is important, at least one non-kicking face is provided to the side of the kicking face with a foot plant instructional graphic for the non-kicking foot. The players can practice multiple kicks in quick succession without the ball kicking training aid moving a substantial distance, so that the player can increase kicking skills in a short timeframe.

Claim (Index 12):
A training aid for practicing proper kicking technique, the training aid comprising:\n a body substantially shaped as a rectangular prism comprising a first kicking face; and a kicking instructional graphic located on the kicking face, the first kicking instructional graphic communicating a first kicking instruction, a second kicking instruction, and a third kicking instruction; wherein the first kicking instruction comprises an elongated horizontal graphic positioned below a middle portion of the first kicking face, the second kicking instruction comprises an elongated diagonal graphic positioned through the middle portion of the first kicking face, the third kicking instruction comprises a second elongated diagonal graphic positioned through the middle portion of the first kicking face and intersecting the elongated diagonal graphic at the middle portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71831
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11203632', '10455829', '13251695', '15418816', '14213863']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6141788315075827
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4770383282089652
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.600464781177721
- Mean Citation Score: 179.80608600000005
- Max Citation Score: 207.26204
- Similarity Product: 160.54803591612102

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