PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15758725
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["008", "09410R"]

Abstract:
Methods, apparatus and kits for modifying natural feathers that are used in sporting goods that result in long lasting feathers with increased mechanical stability, reliability and durability as well as improved flight consistency is disclosed. Some of the sporting goods that use natural feathers are badminton shuttlecocks, arrow fletchings, and darts. The disclosed methods consist of controlled treatment of feather shuttlecocks with crosslinking agents to crosslink the keratin protein present on the natural feathers of the shuttlecock.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the one or more crosslinking agents are selected from the group consisting of a homobifunctional crosslinking agent, a heterobifunctional crosslinking agent, a trifunctional crosslinking agent, and combinations thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 84.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5
- Patent Class: 8.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15108753', '12082642', '16300192', '14361297', '13817823']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8091582941286568
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5234092805884899
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7805833927746402
- Mean Citation Score: 243.707806
- Max Citation Score: 289.23645
- Similarity Product: 163.81305824468134

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

Dataset: test