PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968247
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["114", "247000"]

Abstract:
A floating dock includes a frame, a float, and first and second dock posts. The frame has a first longitudinal section and a second longitudinal that define a slip there between. The dock posts are operatively secured to and project upward from the frame and are on opposite sides of the slip. The posts have self-adjusting line systems including a slide, an elongate member, an upper stop, a lower stop, and a line. The slide is slidable along the elongate member between the upper stop and the lower stop. The line is coupled to the slide. The line is adapted to tether the slide to a watercraft. The slides are capable of moving independently to allow vertical translation, pitch, and roll of the watercraft while the watercraft is secured within the slip.

Claim (Index 5):
A method of fitting self-adjusting line systems to a floating dock comprising:\n attaching a first self-adjusting line system to a first dock post of the floating dock, the first dock post being secured in a fixed vertical position relative to a first longitudinal section of a frame, the first dock post projecting upward from the first longitudinal section, the frame further having a second longitudinal section, the first longitudinal section being operatively secured to the second longitudinal section, the first and second longitudinal sections defining a slip there between, the first dock post positioned on a first side of the slip, the first self-adjusting line system comprising a first slide, a first elongate member, a first upper stop, a first lower stop, a first line, and a first damper, the first slide being slidable along the first elongate member between the first upper stop and the first lower stop; attaching the first line to the first slide; attaching the first damper to the first line such that the first line passes through the first damper, the first damper being configured to damp a varying tension force in the first line caused by movement of a watercraft resulting from wave action; attaching a second self-adjusting line system to a second dock post of the floating dock, the second dock post being secured in a fixed vertical position relative to the second longitudinal section of the frame, the second dock post projecting upward from the second longitudinal section, the second dock post positioned on a second side of the slip, the second side of the slip being opposite the first side of the slip, the second self-adjusting line system comprising a second slide, a second elongate member, a second upper stop, a second lower stop, a second line, and a second damper, the second slide being slidable along the second elongate member between the second upper stop and the second lower stop, the second slide being slidable independently of the first slide; attaching the second line to the second slide; and attaching the second damper to the second line such that the second line passes through the second damper, the second damper being configured to damp a varying tension force in the second line caused by movement of a watercraft resulting from wave action.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.3125
- Patent Class: 114.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11625118', '15231577', '12780473', '10697472', '11051418']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7489069597448713
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4751768043281225
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7215339442031964
- Mean Citation Score: 182.529518
- Max Citation Score: 195.537
- Similarity Product: 152.26531341898442

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

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