PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16121079
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["473", "513000"]

Abstract:
A lacrosse head pocket and a related method of manufacture are provided to facilitate consistent, repeatable and/or custom manufacture of lacrosse equipment. The pocket can be constructed from multiple different sections joined with one another, or can be knitted, weaved or otherwise assembled on an automated assembly machine from strands, and/or can be formed as a unitary textile material having regions/sections with different physical and/or mechanical properties. The pocket can be integrally molded within portions of a lacrosse head to eliminate manually constructed connections between the pocket and lacrosse head. The lacrosse head can be integrally molded with a lacrosse handle to provide a one-piece unitary lacrosse stick. Related methods of manufacturing also are provided.

Claim (Index 1):
A lacrosse pocket comprising:\n a pocket longitudinal axis; an upper pocket portion adapted to connect to a lacrosse head scoop; a lower pocket portion adapted to connect to a lacrosse head base; a middle pocket portion located between the upper pocket portion and the lower pocket portion; a unitary textile material extending from the upper pocket portion to the lower pocket portion, the unitary textile material constructed from a plurality of strands; a predefined, three dimensional, concave shape that is integrally formed in the unitary textile material due to at least one of a knit structure and a weave structure being knitted or weaved respectively in a predetermined manner so as to provide the predefined, three dimensional concave shape; and a second vertical element laterally displaced from and shorter than a first vertical element, wherein the first vertical element includes at least 10% more rows of strands than the second vertical element, wherein at least one of the first vertical element and the second vertical element is less than 15 needles wide.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.74648
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14815057', '14815145', '14815117', '14881442', '14971020']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.769601298358766
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6276693377785167
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7554081023007411
- Mean Citation Score: 561.7917299999998
- Max Citation Score: 601.9495
- Similarity Product: 566.8707229072153

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