PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976746
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["473", "567000"]

Abstract:
A ball bat includes outer shell segments longitudinally spaced apart from each other to form a gap between them. A joint connects the segments. A first outer shell segment may include a barrel portion of the ball bat and at least part of a tapered portion of the ball bat. A second outer shell segment may include at least part of the tapered portion. The joint may include a tubular element having a first portion positioned within the first outer shell segment and at least partially overlapping an interior surface of the first outer shell segment, and a second portion positioned within the second outer shell segment and at least partially overlapping an interior surface of the second outer shell segment. The tubular element may include an elastomeric material. In some embodiments, the joint may be formed by an elastomeric material connecting the outer shell segments in the gap.

Claim (Index 10):
A ball bat, comprising:\n a first outer shell segment, the first outer shell segment forming a barrel portion of the ball bat; a second outer shell segment, the second outer shell segment forming at least part of a tapered portion of the ball bat, the second outer shell segment being longitudinally spaced from the first outer shell segment by a gap; and an elastomeric material positioned between the first outer shell segment and the second outer shell segment to join the first outer shell segment to the second outer shell segment, the elastomeric material being configured to flex to facilitate relative movement between the first outer shell segment and the second outer shell segment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72414
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15894365', '15815423', '13938785', '13938830', '10712251']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6656633305070143
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.533673593888536
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6524643568451666
- Mean Citation Score: 207.785956
- Max Citation Score: 238.38232
- Similarity Product: 188.8472054357433

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

Dataset: test