PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15982957
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["473", "597000"]

Abstract:
A game ball configured for direct contact with a user's hands includes a cover formed of a natural leather and having an outer surface. The outer surface of the cover includes a pebbled texture. The pebbled texture includes a plurality of spaced apart pebble-like projections extending from a base region. Each of the pebble-like projections has a pebble height measured from the base region adjacent to the pebble-like projection to a top surface of the pebble-like projection. At least a first portion of the cover includes alphanumeric and/or graphical indicia applied by a laser ghosting process, and a second portion of the cover is formed without the indicia. The average pebble height of a plurality of the pebble-like projections in the first portion of the cover is at least 80 percent of the average height of a plurality of the pebble-like projections in the second portion of the cover.

Claim (Index 12):
The game ball of  claim 6 , wherein each of the cover panels has an outer surface area, and wherein the first portion of the cover including alphanumeric and/or graphical indicia extends over at least one half of the outer surface area of at least one of the cover panels.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30882
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12220569', '10625325', '13866196', '11018628', '13827067']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6643731479237468
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5020244753601886
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.648138280667391
- Mean Citation Score: 233.712744
- Max Citation Score: 253.02173
- Similarity Product: 172.6786451197875

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

Dataset: test