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 17):
The ball bat of  claim 10 , further comprising a reinforcing tubular element positioned adjacent to the elastomeric material in a radially inward direction, wherein the elastomeric material has a first stiffness and the reinforcing tubular element has a second stiffness greater than the first stiffness.

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): 0.6634878330558236
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5442243068523135
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6515614804354726
- Mean Citation Score: 207.785956
- Max Citation Score: 238.38232
- Similarity Product: 164.4537772622776

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