PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944993
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["473", "376000"]

Abstract:
Golf balls having a multi-layered core made of a foamed composition are provided. The core preferably has a foam inner core (center) and surrounding thermoset or thermoplastic outer core layer. Preferably, a polyurethane foam composition is used to form the foam center. The foam inner core preferably includes a fully-foamed center region and a partially or completely-collapsed foam outer region. The hardness of the fully-foamed region is different than the hardness of the collapsed foam region. Non-foamed thermoset or thermoplastic materials such as polybutadiene rubbers or ethylene acid copolymer ionomer may be used to form the outer core layer. The ball further includes a cover that may be multi-layered. The foam cores have good resiliency.

Claim (Index 11):
The golf ball of  claim 1 , wherein the outer core layer has an outer surface hardness (H outer surface of OC ) and a midpoint hardness (H midpoint of OC ), the H outer surface of OC  being greater than the (H midpoint of OC ), to provide a positive hardness gradient.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93846
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15071381', '15140613', '14101431', '14184785', '15713943']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.740902665408644
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5787125830483446
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7246836571726141
- Mean Citation Score: 445.914518
- Max Citation Score: 471.291
- Similarity Product: 470.1320722317695

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

Dataset: test