PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16174018
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["296", "026100"]

Abstract:
A replacement tailgate for the purpose of elongating the pick up truck may be installed on a truck bed wherein the replacement tailgate can be unfolded in order to elongate a length of the truck bed. The replacement tailgate may have front and rear shells that are used to support objects placed in the truck bed as well as act as the new tailgate when the truck bed length is elongated. Various panels may be unfolded in order to trap objects within the truck bed when the replacement tailgate is unfolded in order to elongate the truck bed length.

Claim (Index 9):
A method of elongating a bed length of a truck, the method comprising the steps of:\n providing a tailgate for a bed of a truck, the tailgate comprising:\n a rear shell sized and configured to fit between left and right sidewalls of the truck bed, the rear shell being pivotally attached to a lower rear edge of the truck bed; \n a front shell pivotally attached to an upper edge of the rear shell, the front shell being pivotable greater than 180 when the front shell is disposed generally parallel to the rear shell; \n left and right side panels pivotally attached to left and right side portions of the front shell; \n left and right latches attachable to the left and right side panels and the left and right sidewalls of the truck bed to mitigate unwanted movement of the rear shell, front shell and the left and right panels during forward movement of the truck; \n pivotally attaching a lower edge of the rear shell to the lower rear edge of the truck bed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08163
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15629643', '15721315', '15414346', '14959259', '15238577']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8745078440899922
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5941578388875841
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8464728435697514
- Mean Citation Score: 600.82366
- Max Citation Score: 619.9547
- Similarity Product: 506.17117883731134

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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