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 10):
The game ball of  claim 1 , wherein the average pebble height of a plurality of pebble-like projections of the first and second portions of the cover is within the range of 0.004 to 0.0275 inch.

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): 0.6659722648709232
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4937969990900797
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6487547382928388
- Mean Citation Score: 233.712744
- Max Citation Score: 253.02173
- Similarity Product: 195.21728693191352

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