PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16174018
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["296", "026100"]

Abstract:
A replacement tailgate for the purpose of elongating the pick up truck may be installed on a truck bed wherein the replacement tailgate can be unfolded in order to elongate a length of the truck bed. The replacement tailgate may have front and rear shells that are used to support objects placed in the truck bed as well as act as the new tailgate when the truck bed length is elongated. Various panels may be unfolded in order to trap objects within the truck bed when the replacement tailgate is unfolded in order to elongate the truck bed length.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of extending a truck bed of a truck, the method comprising the steps of:\n providing driver-side first, second and third vertical panels which are stacked upon each other and disposed in a driver-side cavity formed by a driver-side sidewall of the truck bed; providing a passenger-side first, second and third vertical panels which are stacked upon each other and disposed in a passenger-side cavity formed by a passenger-side sidewall of the truck bed; pivoting a tailgate to an opened position so that an upper surface of the tailgate is generally coplanar with an upper surface of the truck bed; pivoting the driver side first, second and third vertical panels out from the driver side cavity so that the driver side first vertical panel is parallel with a driver side edge of the tailgate; pivoting the passenger side first, second and third vertical panels out from the passenger side cavity so that the passenger side first vertical panel is parallel a passenger side edge of the tailgate; pivoting the driver side and passenger side second and third vertical panels away from the driver side and passenger side first vertical panels so that the second and third vertical panels are parallel to a back edge of the tailgate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08163
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15629643', '15721315', '15414346', '14959259', '15238577']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8687821731480122
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6265575968665013
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8445597155198612
- Mean Citation Score: 600.82366
- Max Citation Score: 619.9547
- Similarity Product: 615.7914457252622

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