PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15981740
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["473", "492000"]

Abstract:
A tennis net anchoring device and method securely anchors a tennis net center strap to a recessed anchor post on a tennis court surface. The anchoring device comprises a longitudinal, double-sided, unitary body supporting a net-retention member and a ground-retention member. A top portion of the unitary body includes two arcuate T-shaped, net-retention members that retain the tennis net through grommet holes in the net. The net-retention members extend downwardly from the upper end of the middle portion to define an arcuate net-support surface. A lower portion of the unitary body includes two off-set, J-shaped ground-retention members, opposite the net-retention members. The ground-retention members have a ground-retention surface that forms an anchor post insertion channel. The insertion channel enables insertion of an anchor post recessed beneath the court surface. The ground-retention members have free ground ends that enable maneuvering of the anchor post within the anchor post insertion channel.

Claim (Index 17):
An anchoring device in combination with a tennis net having a net bottom portion including an aperture with a bottom grommet coupled thereto, the tennis net being selectively removably coupled at each opposing end to an anchor post, spanning a width of a tennis court defined by a tennis court surface, wherein a rigid anchor post is recessed below the tennis court surface, and, wherein the improvement comprises:\n a unitary body of a rigid material including:\n a middle portion with an upper end and a bottom end opposing the upper end of the middle portion; \n two net-retention members each extending downwardly from the upper end of the middle portion to define an arcuate net-support surface facing in a direction toward the bottom end of the middle portion, the net-support surface being operable to enable support of the bottom grommet of the tennis net, both net-retention members terminating at respective free net ends, and both net-retention members flanking the middle portion; and \n two ground-retention members extending downwardly from the bottom end of the middle portion, each ground-retention member having an arcuate portion with a ground-retention surface facing in a direction toward the net-support surfaces of the net-retention members, the ground-retention surface forming an anchor post insertion channel operable to enable insertion of the anchor post, both ground-retention members terminating at respective free ground ends, the free ground ends being operable to enable maneuvering of the anchor post within the anchor post insertion channel, and both ground-retention members disposed in off-set configurations with respect to the middle portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28169
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11481538', '09655054', '13068721', '11418569', '13162387']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6579499020515771
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4992502882118123
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6420799406676007
- Mean Citation Score: 219.37795
- Max Citation Score: 253.89503
- Similarity Product: 182.23647524905084

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

Dataset: test