PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15879955
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["473", "605000"]

Abstract:
A sports ball comprises a plurality of interlocking panels covered by an outer layer. Each of the interlocking panels includes a plurality of recesses. The outer layer includes a plurality of distinct surface irregularities, each of the surface irregularities aligned with one of the plurality of recesses.

Claim (Index 1):
A ball comprising:\n a bladder; and a multi-layer cover including an outer layer and an intermediate layer between the outer layer and the bladder, the intermediate layer including at least one perforated panel comprising a plurality of perforations, the outer layer including a plurality of dimples, each of the plurality of dimples aligned with one of the plurality of perforations.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82143
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15480895', '15604708', '15379382', '15802532', '12980868']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5651388437147996
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5499002351629776
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5636149828596174
- Mean Citation Score: 222.007164
- Max Citation Score: 405.29877
- Similarity Product: 327.2383187358713

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