PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16019187
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["002", "414000"]

Abstract:
A catcher's mask comprises a two-piece plastic shell composed of a rigid front shell and a rigid rear shell. The front and rear shells are connected by a strap harness attached to the front shell and have padding assemblies. The front shell has ventilation holes including ear holes positioned over the wearer's ears and a full jaw protector integrally formed as part of front shell. A wire faceguard is removably attached to the front shell extending over the ear holes. A top upper member of the faceguard comprises a center bar part, a left side bar part bent upwardly with respect to the center bar part to form a left eyebrow area, and a right side bar part bent upwardly with respect to the center bar part to form a right eyebrow area. The rear shell has a concave padding assembly comprised of a concave TPU shock absorbing layer, and a nested concave comfort layer.

Claim (Index 6):
The catcher's mask of  claim 1  wherein the top upper member, bottom upper member and bottom lower member are adapted to extend substantially past the left edge and the right edge of the face opening to meet at or beyond the ear holes, thereby being adapted to extend the face guard over the ear holes and protect an area surrounding the ear holes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21333
- Patent Class: 2.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15649258', '14878431', '14674484', '15801077', '15347898']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7740222058967572
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5923190617510703
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7558518914821885
- Mean Citation Score: 426.2271280000001
- Max Citation Score: 545.05896
- Similarity Product: 448.7598442411994

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

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