PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15869412
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["473", "563000"]

Abstract:
A hockey-stick blade includes a heel region, a toe region spaced longitudinally from the heel region, and a mid-region located between the heel region and the toe region. The toe region includes one or more reinforcing elements, optionally of different lengths, located at different vertical positions within the toe region. The blade further includes a hosel that optionally is tailored to substantially match the strength and stiffness characteristics of an attached or integral hockey-stick shaft. The mid-region of the blade exhibits improved feel and flexibility characteristics due to the increased stiffness in the toe region.

Claim (Index 19):
A hockey-stick blade including a front face, and a rear face spaced from the front face in a lateral direction, comprising: a heel region; a toe region spaced from the heel region in a longitudinal direction; a mid-region located between the heel region and the toe region; a plurality of core elements positioned between the front face and the rear face running longitudinally from the toe region to at least the heel region, the core elements including at least a first core element and a second core element; a first reinforcing element positioned directly or indirectly on the first core element only in the toe region; and a second reinforcing element positioned directly or indirectly on the second core element only in the toe region; wherein the first core element is an upper core element, the second core element is a lower core element, and the blade includes at least one medial core element, wherein the first reinforcing element is positioned directly or indirectly on a lower surface of the upper core element in the toe region, the second reinforcing element is positioned directly or indirectly on an upper surface of the lower core element in the toe region, and at least one additional reinforcing element is positioned directly or indirectly on the at least one medial core element in the toe region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90741
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14720639', '13688061', '15012690', '13963848', '14604571']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6798444893407761
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5482553152061305
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6666855719273116
- Mean Citation Score: 357.941184
- Max Citation Score: 411.28503
- Similarity Product: 409.3851563961196

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