PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16121079
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["473", "513000"]

Abstract:
A lacrosse head pocket and a related method of manufacture are provided to facilitate consistent, repeatable and/or custom manufacture of lacrosse equipment. The pocket can be constructed from multiple different sections joined with one another, or can be knitted, weaved or otherwise assembled on an automated assembly machine from strands, and/or can be formed as a unitary textile material having regions/sections with different physical and/or mechanical properties. The pocket can be integrally molded within portions of a lacrosse head to eliminate manually constructed connections between the pocket and lacrosse head. The lacrosse head can be integrally molded with a lacrosse handle to provide a one-piece unitary lacrosse stick. Related methods of manufacturing also are provided.

Claim (Index 11):
A lacrosse pocket comprising:\n a unitary textile material having a plurality of at least one of knitted strands and weaved strands; a predefined, three dimensional, concave shape that is integrally formed in the lacrosse pocket due to at least one of a knit structure and a weave structure being knitted or weaved respectively in a predetermined manner so as to provide the predefined, three dimensional concave shape; and a pocket body bounded by a perimeter flange constructed from the plurality of at least one of knitted strands and weaved strands and formed integrally with the pocket body, wherein the pocket defines a longitudinal axis centered between a first side edge and a second side edge of the lacrosse pocket, wherein the plurality of vertical elements become progressively shorter in a length measured parallel to the longitudinal axis the farther a vertical element is located away from the longitudinal axis, wherein each of the plurality of vertical elements includes a plurality of rows of strands therein, a number of rows of strands in each vertical element decreasing the farther a vertical element is located away from the longitudinal axis, wherein the length of, and the number of rows in, the plurality of vertical elements enable the vertical elements to collectively cooperate with one another to form a side-to-side concave curvature of the lacrosse pocket, the concave curvature contributing to the predefined, three dimensional, concave shape that is integrally formed in the lacrosse pocket, wherein the plurality of vertical elements includes a first vertical element and a second vertical element, wherein the first vertical element includes at least 5% more rows of strands than the second vertical element, wherein at least one of the first vertical element and the second vertical element is less than 15 needles wide.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.74648
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14815057', '14815145', '14815117', '14881442', '14971020']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7686559109900494
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6309419439226739
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7548845142833118
- Mean Citation Score: 561.7917299999998
- Max Citation Score: 601.9495
- Similarity Product: 578.6835920554101

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

Dataset: test