PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16164827
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["211", "085700"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides a watersports board rack for attaching to a support member (e.g., hanging down from an overhead support tower) of a boat. The rack may have a low profile, superior padding and an increased contact area compared to current rack systems, as well as at least one strap for securing the board against the padding and a coupler for attaching to the overhead support member. The rack may thus be operable to securely hold up to two watersports boards (e.g., two wakesurf boards) without the usual wear and tear (e.g., dents and scrapes) that occurs from regular contact with the tines of current rack systems. The rack may thus increase the boat's capacity to securely store watersports boards while the boat is in motion, and due to the low profile, the rack will not substantially reduce headroom or require removal from a folding tower before folding the tower down for transporting and storing the boat.

Claim (Index 18):
A rack system for securing a watersports board to a ski boat tower of a boat, the system comprising:\n a. a low-profile, substantially planar base plate for attachment to a crossbar\u2014of an overhead ski boat tower, said low-profile base plate operable to be installed on said cross bar of said tower such that the base plate is less than about 5 inches from said cross bar such that the base plate is substantially parallel to a deck of said boat; b. a securing device for securing said watersports board against said base plate such that a deck of the watersports board is substantially parallel to said substantially planar base plate; and c. an adjustable bracket attached to said base plate, said adjustable bracket being operable to allow the base plate to be positioned to store said watersports board at various angles relative to said tower, said various angles comprising an angle oblique to an axis of said cross bar.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95556
- Patent Class: 211.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11078578', '13967137', '16020744', '10907332', '15193817']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7528553477365019
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4889291599035357
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7264627289532053
- Mean Citation Score: 174.807252
- Max Citation Score: 193.19308
- Similarity Product: 122.55627975867272

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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