PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976746
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["473", "567000"]

Abstract:
A ball bat includes outer shell segments longitudinally spaced apart from each other to form a gap between them. A joint connects the segments. A first outer shell segment may include a barrel portion of the ball bat and at least part of a tapered portion of the ball bat. A second outer shell segment may include at least part of the tapered portion. The joint may include a tubular element having a first portion positioned within the first outer shell segment and at least partially overlapping an interior surface of the first outer shell segment, and a second portion positioned within the second outer shell segment and at least partially overlapping an interior surface of the second outer shell segment. The tubular element may include an elastomeric material. In some embodiments, the joint may be formed by an elastomeric material connecting the outer shell segments in the gap.

Claim (Index 1):
A ball bat, comprising:\n a first outer shell segment; a second outer shell segment longitudinally spaced from the first outer shell segment to form a gap between the first outer shell segment and the second outer shell segment; and a joint connecting the first outer shell segment to the second outer shell segment; wherein the first outer shell segment comprises a barrel portion of the ball bat and at least part of a tapered portion of the ball bat; the second outer shell segment comprises at least part of the tapered portion; and the joint comprises a tubular element having a first portion positioned within the first outer shell segment and at least partially overlapping an interior surface of the first outer shell segment, and a second portion positioned within the second outer shell segment and at least partially overlapping an interior surface of the second outer shell segment, wherein the tubular element comprises an elastomeric material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72414
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15894365', '15815423', '13938785', '13938830', '10712251']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6665336105580706
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5294344192173821
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6528236914240018
- Mean Citation Score: 207.785956
- Max Citation Score: 238.38232
- Similarity Product: 198.6273901834201

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