PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16254219
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["473", "485000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for playing hacky sack game comprising a hoop stand that provides multiple shooting targets for players. The hoop stand includes a base support and a number of netted hoops, which includes a center netted hoop and a plurality of radial netted hoops. The netted hoops are connected to the base support, which is positioned within a target zone of a playing surface. The system of the hacky sack game includes a plurality of footbags, the hoop stand and the playing surface which also comprises an offensive boundary positioned outside the target zone to separate the offensive and defensive zones. The method of the game comprises a process of interactive offensive and defensive plays between a first team of at least two offensive players, a second team of at least two defensive players playing the hack sack using the system. The present invention offers an innovative, challenging, yet simple and fun method for playing the hacky sack game, which has not been achieved before in the past.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of playing hacky sack game comprising:\n (A) providing a plurality of hacky sacks, wherein each of the plurality of hacky sacks is a footbag; (B) providing a playing surface comprising a hoop boundary, an offensive boundary, a hoop zone, an offensive playing zone, and a defensive playing zone; (C) providing a hoop stand comprising a base support, a center netted hoop, and a plurality of radial netted hoops; (D) providing a first team and a second team, wherein each team comprises at least two players, and wherein the first team is decided to play offensive; (E) distributing a predetermined number of hacky sacks to each player of the first and second team; (F) arranging teams in the designated playing zones of the playing surface, wherein the first team plays offensive inside the offensive playing zone, and wherein the second team plays defensive inside the defensive playing zone; (G) starting the game through serving by the first team, wherein a first player of the first team throwing a first hacky sack of the first player to a second player of the first team; (H) playing the first hacky sack, wherein the at least two players of the first team pass the first hacky sack to each other by kicking only and/or attempt to kick the first hacky sack into the center netted loop or one of the plurality of radial netted loops to score, and wherein each of the at least two players of the second team throws a hacky sack to intercept the first hacky sack; (I) awarding a score to a specific team, wherein the first team earns three points if the first hacky sack falls into the center netted hoop, or wherein the first team earns one point if the first hacky sack falls into one of the plurality of radial netted hoops; (J) continuing to play the game by repeating step (G) to step (I), wherein each player of the first team takes turn to serve; (K) switching the offensive/defensive teams and resuming the game by repeating step (E) to step (J), if the at least two players of the first team have played all hacky sacks and no team reaches a predetermined winning score; and; (L) ending the hacky sack game if any team reaches the predetermined winning score.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23457
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14034225', '13752182', '12748919', '10817119', '13211540']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5967213829286252
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5146640933234813
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5885156539681108
- Mean Citation Score: 242.655182
- Max Citation Score: 247.48982
- Similarity Product: 144.64234383152132

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