PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16103438
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["473", "446000"]

Abstract:
An instructional training soccer ball with color coded contact zones provided as a tutorial training guide of soccer ball striking skills in the development of novice and young soccer players. The color-coded zones correspond to different types of kicks including passes, strikes, curves, lobs/long balls, and chips, whereby when a player comes into contact with a color-coded zone with the appropriate part of their foot, the soccer ball will produce the corresponding type of kick. The soccer ball may also have one or more legends that is color coded and matches the corresponding contact zones whereby the legends tell the user what part of their foot to kick with, such as the inside foot or laces.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of training soccer players comprising:\n providing an instructional soccer ball, the soccer ball having four contact zones, wherein the contact zones are graphic illustrations on a surface of the soccer ball, a first contact zone in the shape of a ring around the surface of the soccer ball with a center positioned as a latitudinal great circle of the soccer ball, wherein a pass is accomplished by coming into contact with the first contact zone with an inside of a user's foot, a second contact zone in the shape of an arc on the surface of the soccer ball with a center positioned as a longitudinal great circle of the soccer ball, wherein a strike is accomplished by coming into contact with the second contact zone with laces of a shoe on the user's foot, a third contact zone in the shape of a ring with a center as a great circle arranged diagonally to the first contact zone and second contact zone of the soccer ball, wherein a curve is accomplished by coming into contact with the third contact zone with the inside of the user's foot, and a fourth contact zone in the shape of a bowl of hemispherical form positioned at a bottom of soccer ball, wherein a lob/long ball or chip is accomplished by coming into contact with the fourth contact zone with the laces of the shoe on the user's foot; positioning the soccer ball with the bottom of the soccer ball in contact with the ground; finding a contact zone by identifying the location and appropriate color; identifying which part of the body is needed to come into contact with a contact zone; kicking the soccer ball with the identified body part against a contact zone to perform the desired type of kick.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11203632', '13178458', '11368090', '14573365', '12432001']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.613155286163327
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4764048482844964
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.599480242375444
- Mean Citation Score: 166.092888
- Max Citation Score: 191.9367
- Similarity Product: 142.53456612381936

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

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