PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15910205
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["473", "567000"]

Abstract:
A composite ball bat comprising a handle, a tapered portion extending from an attachment end of the handle, and a barrel portion extending from the tapered portion to an end-cap end. The barrel portion includes an inner surface and an outer surface, with a uniform thickness between the inner and outer surfaces. The barrel portion also includes a preferred impact area. At least one increased-thickness section is molded and cured integrally with the barrel portion. That composite material forming the barrel portion and at least one increased-thickness section is therefore uniform. At least one of the increased-thickness sections is positioned at or near the preferred impact area, and each increased-thickness section has a thickness greater than the uniform thickness.

Claim (Index 15):
The ball bat of  claim 10  wherein the thickness of a said increased-thickness section is between about 0.300 inches and 0.400 inches.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22414
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14562693', '14099710', '13685704', '13479944', '12695920']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6692793449425887
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5082905619614255
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6531804666444724
- Mean Citation Score: 241.92708
- Max Citation Score: 249.03915
- Similarity Product: 150.31815203602017

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