PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16140892
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["473", "420000"]

Abstract:
The invention discloses a kicking tee for American football or rugby that maximizes the possible forward lean of the football which extends the segment of impact through the ball while also exposing the entire ball from base to tip to the view of the kicker, allowing the kicker to more easily aim at the ball's sweet spot. The results achieved by use of the present invention are greater distance and height, velocity and hangtime, as well as greater control of the trajectory of the ball over that of the prior art. The invention also improves on the prior art by allowing a greater overall range of ball placement, resulting in the kicker having greater control over where the ball will travel on the field of play.

Claim (Index 13):
The kicking tee of  claim 9  wherein said base has a textured surface to provide grip of said ground surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76316
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13902168', '13067740', '13967392', '12923105', '10747179']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6616456286241797
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4994619991534137
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6454272656771032
- Mean Citation Score: 222.36179
- Max Citation Score: 236.79178
- Similarity Product: 158.10862197570555

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

Dataset: test