PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968247
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["114", "247000"]

Abstract:
A floating dock includes a frame, a float, and first and second dock posts. The frame has a first longitudinal section and a second longitudinal that define a slip there between. The dock posts are operatively secured to and project upward from the frame and are on opposite sides of the slip. The posts have self-adjusting line systems including a slide, an elongate member, an upper stop, a lower stop, and a line. The slide is slidable along the elongate member between the upper stop and the lower stop. The line is coupled to the slide. The line is adapted to tether the slide to a watercraft. The slides are capable of moving independently to allow vertical translation, pitch, and roll of the watercraft while the watercraft is secured within the slip.

Claim (Index 1):
A floating dock comprising:\n a frame; at least one float; first and second dock posts; and first and second self-adjusting line systems, each of the first and second self-adjusting line systems comprising a slide, an elongate member, an upper stop, a lower stop, a line, and a damper, the slide being slidable along the elongate member between the upper stop and the lower stop, the line being adapted to tether the slide to a watercraft, the line passing through the damper, the damper being configured to damp a varying tension force in the line caused by movement of a watercraft resulting from wave action; the at least one float being coupled to the frame, the at least one float being adapted to support the frame on water, the frame having a first longitudinal section and a second longitudinal section, the first longitudinal section operatively secured to the second longitudinal section, the first and second longitudinal sections of the frame defining a slip therebetween, the slip being sized and configured to receive a watercraft within the slip, the first dock post secured in a fixed vertical position relative to and projecting upward from the first longitudinal section, the second dock post secured in a fixed vertical position relative to and projecting upward from the second longitudinal section, the first dock post and the second dock post being positioned on opposite sides of the slip, the first self-adjusting line system being attached to the first dock post, and the first and second self-adjusting line systems configured such that when a watercraft tethered to the first slide via the first line and tethered to the second slide via the second line moves as a result of wave action the first slide and the second slide are capable of moving independently to allow vertical translation, pitch, and roll of the watercraft while the watercraft is secured within the slip.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.3125
- Patent Class: 114.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11625118', '15231577', '12780473', '10697472', '11051418']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7494131062146321
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4725211784693168
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7217239134401007
- Mean Citation Score: 182.529518
- Max Citation Score: 195.537
- Similarity Product: 156.06530470204353

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

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