PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16099263
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["052", "834000"]

Abstract:
A method of forming a support pole, comprising splitting one or more canes of bamboo, or similar tubular plant material, into a plurality of split lengths; inserting a bundle of the split lengths from one or more canes into an outer tube ( 4 ); tilting the outer tube ( 4 ) at an angle from horizontal and injecting a matrix material into the outer tube ( 4 ) so as to fill in between the split lengths and encapsulate the split lengths to form a substantially solid core. The method may comprise injecting the matrix material at multiple injection points ( 25 a,  25 b,  25 c,  25 d ) along the length of the tube ( 4 ).

Claim (Index 8):
The method according to  claim 1 , comprising injecting a polyurethane foam as the matrix material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11166992', '14199992', '15215796', '10476296', '10436359']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7877879577405399
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4568430524596085
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7546934672124468
- Mean Citation Score: 133.472398
- Max Citation Score: 173.226
- Similarity Product: 145.22768215441704

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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