PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16161995
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["473", "505000"]

Abstract:
A golf ball launcher including a head installed on an elongate shaft. The head is a unitary cup that releasably captures a standard golf ball with a friction fit insertion. When the launcher is accelerated in an arc in the manner of a lacrosse throw, the ball is released with a slight deceleration or snap at the point of release and with backspin.

Claim (Index 4):
The golf ball launcher of  claim 1 , wherein said cup portion includes an upper jaw which flares laterally at a terminal end into an upper lip and a lower jaw which flares laterally into a lower lip.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.48889
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14677045', '10867077', '13779676', '14259855', '14886309']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.65497580910055
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.49320108401883
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.638798336592378
- Mean Citation Score: 191.990688
- Max Citation Score: 206.936
- Similarity Product: 136.53457054471968

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