PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959148
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["273", "400000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for playing a game includes a first plurality of spherical game-pieces of a first color and a second plurality of spherical game-pieces of a second color, each sized and dimensioned to be thrown by hand. A base stand that supports a plurality of vertically oriented channels each configured to hold and display a column of the spherical game-pieces. A funnel is affixed to the base stand that is configured to receive a thrown game-piece, and to direct the thrown game-piece into the upper end of one of plurality of vertically oriented channels. A storage container may be located under the plurality of vertical channels configured to receive and store the game-pieces. The apparatus for playing a game is useful for playing a game with at least one participant.

Claim (Index 4):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of vertically oriented channels are aligned substantially in a plane; and\n wherein the funnel includes a forward ramp, a rear ramp, and two sidewalls, the forward ramp and the rear ramp extending upward from the upper ends of plurality of vertically oriented channels and away from each other relative to the plane of the plurality of vertically oriented channels, the two sidewalls extending between the forward ramp and the rear ramp, with one of the two sidewalls extending upward from the upper end of a first of the plurality of vertically oriented channels aligned in the plane, and the other of the two sidewalls extending upward from the upper end of a last of the plurality of vertically oriented channels aligned in the plane, the forward ramp, the rear ramp, and the two sidewalls together configured to circumscribe the upper ends of plurality of vertically oriented channels.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2459
- Patent Class: 273.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15073814', '15355694', '14322413', '15262839', '12254694']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5879598723915285
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5024175180050396
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5794056369528796
- Mean Citation Score: 180.220316
- Max Citation Score: 193.51376
- Similarity Product: 114.02907275017738

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