PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16166094
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["002", "069000"]

Abstract:
The present invention includes a method and apparatus for inhibiting sliding on ice or snow, for example, hockey jerseys and/or hockey pants made of a material, such as microfiber cloth, that inhibits sliding when a hockey player falls to the ice at speed. In some embodiments, the hockey garment includes an outer layer of micro-fiber material. The garment is optionally a hockey jersey, pants, elbow covering, kneepads, gloves, shin covering, forearm covering, and/or pants having a plurality of separated areas of micro-fiber material. Optionally, the garment includes stitching that sews the micro-fiber material to a plurality of inner cloth layers using a plurality of at least five curvilinear stitching paths equally spaced from one another through a first area of the garment and a plurality of at least five curvilinear paths equally spaced from one another through a second area of the garment spaced apart from the first area.

Claim (Index 5):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the garment includes at least one selected from the set consisting of hockey knee covering and hockey shin covering.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10127
- Patent Class: 2.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15623717', '12618230', '13435623', '11569041', '10960402']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7252887843320942
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4999726412642487
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7027571700253097
- Mean Citation Score: 228.64958
- Max Citation Score: 248.60986
- Similarity Product: 147.48634144259094

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

Dataset: test