PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16140892
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["473", "420000"]

Abstract:
The invention discloses a kicking tee for American football or rugby that maximizes the possible forward lean of the football which extends the segment of impact through the ball while also exposing the entire ball from base to tip to the view of the kicker, allowing the kicker to more easily aim at the ball's sweet spot. The results achieved by use of the present invention are greater distance and height, velocity and hangtime, as well as greater control of the trajectory of the ball over that of the prior art. The invention also improves on the prior art by allowing a greater overall range of ball placement, resulting in the kicker having greater control over where the ball will travel on the field of play.

Claim (Index 1):
A kicking tee comprising:\n (a) a base supportable on a ground surface; (b) said base having a wedge-shaped platform having a front end gradually sloping upward to a heel-shaped end; (c) said platform having at least one raised sidewall around the circumference of the heel-shaped end and rim of said platform, protruding generally vertically with a curvature such that the top edge of the sidewalls can conform to the curvature of a prolate spheroid-shaped ball; (d) said sidewalls further having at least two tabs spaced on either side of said platform to further support said ball, said tabs being generally perpendicular to said platform; wherein said ball is supported by said kicking tee by said platform and further supported by said sidewalls and tabs, whereby said ball can be positioned on said tee in an optimal forward lean configuration, exposing the entire ball from bottom to tip and creating an optimal segment of impact through said ball resulting in an increase in the achievable distance, height, velocity and hangtime of said ball's trajectory.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76316
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13902168', '13067740', '13967392', '12923105', '10747179']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6348735138857724
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4956178401271734
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6209479465099126
- Mean Citation Score: 222.36179
- Max Citation Score: 236.79178
- Similarity Product: 161.596813416996

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test