PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16008381
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["473", "376000"]

Abstract:
Multi-layered golf balls containing a two or three-layered cover assembly are provided. In one embodiment, the cover assembly includes a relatively hard inner cover and relatively soft outer cover. Alternatively, the cover assembly may include a relatively soft inner cover with a relatively hard outer cover. Three-layered covers comprising an inner cover, intermediate cover, and outer cover layer also may be prepared. Preferably, at least one of the layers is formed from a thermoplastic composition that comprises: a) ethylene acid copolymer, b) plasticizer, and c) cation source. A sulfonamide, alkyl diacid ester, or organophosphate or organosulfur compound is preferably used as the plasticizer. The cover assembly has good impact durability and helps provide the ball with relatively high resiliency at given compressions.

Claim (Index 10):
The golf ball of  claim 7 , wherein the intermediate cover layer has a midpoint hardness and the midpoint hardness of the inner cover layer is less than the midpoint hardness of the intermediate cover layer, and the midpoint hardness of the intermediate cover layer is greater than the outer surface hardness of the outer cover layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71084
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14527857', '15417398', '15903149', '15480727', '14511221']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7515684621807514
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5707116864416536
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7334827846068416
- Mean Citation Score: 463.055252
- Max Citation Score: 466.3972
- Similarity Product: 431.01223873019217

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

Dataset: test