PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15924675
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["137", "360000"]

Abstract:
A system of modular boxes as shown and described can be interconnected directly to one another via connectors that are integrally molded with the sidewalls of the boxes. The connectors of the boxes may include fastener receiving apertures for receiving a stud-mounting fastener therethrough. The connectors are thin and flexible, such that insertion and forcible tightening of a fastener through the aperture will cause a compressive force to be exerted between the interconnected boxes to maintain their spatial relationship and to maintain their interconnection. A further feature of the modular boxes of the system are anti-rotation members and receivers that are integrally molded to the side walls of the boxes. The anti-rotation members and receivers interact with one another at the point of connection between the boxes to prevent the boxes from flexing, rotating, or otherwise moving with respect to one another post-installation.

Claim (Index 1):
A modular plumbing box system for mounting to one or more studs within a wall, the plumbing box system comprising:\n a first plumbing box having a top wall, a bottom wall, first and second side walls, a back wall, and an open front portion defining a central opening spaced from the back wall, the first plumbing box including: a first connector that is integral with and extends outwardly from the first sidewall, the first connector extending continuously along the first sidewall from the top wall to the bottom wall, and the first connector having a top surface and a bottom surface separated from the top surface by a thickness along a direction T, wherein the first connector is configured to detachably connect with a second connector of a second plumbing box so as to interconnect the first and second plumbing boxes, and wherein the first connector further includes:\n an anti-rotation projection that extends outwardly from the first connector at a location closer to the bottom wall than to the top wall, the anti-rotation projection having a top surface that is coplanar with the top surface of the first connector and having a bottom surface that is inset from the bottom surface of the first connector; and \n an anti-rotation receiver that extends outwardly from the first connector at a location closer to the top wall than to the bottom wall, the anti-rotation receiver having a channel that is sized and configured to receive a portion of a second anti-rotation projection of the second connector of the second plumbing box.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98684
- Patent Class: 137.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14682645', '14536222', '15185595', '15182232', '14154949']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8385478573746231
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4835347099020807
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8030465426273689
- Mean Citation Score: 237.163806
- Max Citation Score: 269.79456
- Similarity Product: 214.5538500769043

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

Dataset: test