PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974900
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["473", "476000"]

Abstract:
A net fastener for releasably fastening a net to a horizontal crossbar includes a hook defining a loop, the hook having a free end and a handle end defining an opening leading to the loop, an elongate handle extending from the handle end of the hook, a first engagement element proximate the handle end of the hook and a second engagement element located on the handle and separated from the first engagement element by a length of the handle. The first engagement element engages a vertical cord and/or a first horizontal cord of the net and the second engagement element engages a second horizontal cord and/or the vertical cord of the net, and the hook engages the horizontal crossbar. A method for using a plurality of net fasteners to fasten a net to a horizontal crossbar, and a kit comprising a plurality of net fasteners, are also provided.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 15  wherein the plurality of net fasteners includes six net fasteners, wherein the hooks of five of the net fasteners engage the horizontal crossbar and one of the six net fasteners is the additional net fastener used to mount the peripheral horizontal cord of the net to each corner of the first and second corners of the net frame.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90741
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13083113', '15957146', '11261111', '12926630', '13110156']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6472051586505466
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5005465144729995
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6325392942327919
- Mean Citation Score: 195.566812
- Max Citation Score: 209.25447
- Similarity Product: 127.4252640070331

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

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