PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15964360
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["473", "331000"]

Abstract:
A golf club head has a striking face with a plurality of scorelines including a first scoreline and a second scoreline adjacent thereto. The striking face also has a plurality of auxiliary grooves each spaced from the scorelines. In a first imaginary vertical plane, a first path is formed by a first intersection between the first imaginary vertical plane and the striking face, and the auxiliary grooves have a first concentration no less than 0.17 measured between the first and second scorelines. A second imaginary vertical plane is horizontally spaced from the first imaginary plane. A second path is formed in the second imaginary vertical plane by a second intersection between the second imaginary vertical plane and the striking face. The auxiliary grooves in the second imaginary vertical plane have a second concentration that is different from the first concentration measured between the first and second scorelines.

Claim (Index 9):
An iron-type golf club head that, when oriented in a reference position relative to a ground plane, comprises:\n a heel portion; a toe portion opposite the heel portion; a hosel extending from the heel portion; and a striking face comprising:\n a striking face plane generally coplanar with the striking face; \n a textured surface region formed of a texture selected from the group consisting of: a media-blasted texture, a laser-peened texture, a milled texture, a chemically-etched texture, and a micro-milled texture; \n a plurality of scorelines including at least a first scoreline and a second. scoreline adjacent the first scoreline; and \n a plurality of auxiliary, laser-milled grooves each interspersed between the plurality of scorelines and following an inclined path relative to the ground plane at an angle between 5 and 50 degrees relative to the horizontal, measured in the striking face plane, each of the plurality of auxiliary grooves having an average depth no greater than 15 microns and at least partially superimposed on the textured region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.1
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15371879', '13215917', '14175763', '14857386', '15219850']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6957133301461684
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5889236317452211
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6850343603060737
- Mean Citation Score: 486.893048
- Max Citation Score: 536.7794
- Similarity Product: 423.57668318886766

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test