PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15990402
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["294", "015000"]

Abstract:
A lift apparatus for a snowmobile and a kit for constructing same. The lift apparatus includes a rear bumper and first and second slides attachable to a tunnel of the snowmobile. The rear bumper includes a transverse bumper portion connected to first and second slide members. The first and second slide members are slidable along the first and second slides, respectively, to position the transverse bumper portion in a riding position or a deployed position. The transverse bumper portion is positioned farther from the snowmobile when the transverse bumper portion is in the deployed position than when it is in the riding position. The transverse bumper portion is configured to be gripped and lifted by a user when the transverse bumper portion is in the deployed position. The rear bumper is configured to lift a rear portion of the snowmobile when the transverse bumper portion is lifted.

Claim (Index 13):
A snowmobile comprising:\n a rear portion; a tunnel positioned in the rear portion, the tunnel having first and second sides; and a bumper attached to the tunnel and configured to slide with respect the tunnel between a riding position and a deployed position, the snowmobile being ridable when the bumper is in the riding position, the rear portion being liftable by the bumper when the bumper is in the deployed position, the bumper comprising first and second tunnel stiffeners, first and second slides, and first and second slide members, the first tunnel stiffener being configured to be attached to the first side of the tunnel to help stiffen the tunnel, the first slide being attachable to the first tunnel stiffener and mounted to the first side of the tunnel by the first tunnel stiffener, the second tunnel stiffener being configured to be attached to the second side of the tunnel to help stiffen the tunnel, the second slide being attachable to the second tunnel stiffener and mounted to the second side of the tunnel by the second tunnel stiffener, the first and second slide members being configured to slidably engage the first and second slides, respectively.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.05882
- Patent Class: 294.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13018824', '13027116', '15793816', '14894719', '10915473']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7245369837594937
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4471623588647934
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6967995212700236
- Mean Citation Score: 170.40287
- Max Citation Score: 174.37791
- Similarity Product: 152.71443859862924

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

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