PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16179757
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["473", "342000"]

Abstract:
A ball striking device has a head that includes a metal face configured for striking a ball, a rearwardly extending metal band, a top piece, and a bottom piece. The metal band has a first end extending from one side of the face, a second end extending from the opposite side of the face, and a rear portion extending between the first and second ends and defining at least a portion of the rear periphery of the head. The top piece and the bottom piece are non-metallic or substantially non-metallic. The top piece is connected to the top side of the metal band and forms at least a portion of a top side of the head, and the bottom piece is connected to the bottom side of the metal band and forms at least a portion of a bottom side of the head. The top piece and the bottom piece are separated by the metal band.

Claim (Index 2):
The golf club head of  claim 1 ,\n wherein the metal band at least partially defines a top opening on a top side of the metal band, wherein the metal band includes a third ridge extending around a portion of the top opening located on the interior surface of the metal band; and the golf club head further comprises a substantially non-metallic top piece connected to the top side of the metal band and forming at least a portion of a top side of the golf club head, wherein the top piece is positioned to cover the top opening and is larger than the top opening, such that a portion of the top piece engages the interior surface of the metal band around the top opening to secure the top piece in place and further engages the third ridge extending around the second top opening to secure the top piece in place.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.34
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15282361', '12272442', '13867602', '13179211', '12776158']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6916178446281689
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.546899624622551
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6771460226276071
- Mean Citation Score: 344.123242
- Max Citation Score: 384.63147
- Similarity Product: 374.7480792985028

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