PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16285921
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["235", "488000"]

Abstract:
A tamper evident tag and a method of preventing the fraudulent return of an article back to a seller are provided. The tag includes inner and outer layers. A first end of a tag fastener is inserted through the article and through an aperture formed in the inner and outer layers of the tag. A unique code is printed on the tag. A portion of the inner layer of the tag is removed to expose an adhesive. The exposed adhesive is bought into contact with the inner layer of the tag to capture the first end of the tag fastener between the outer layer and the inner layer. The unique code is associated with the article for future reference.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 3  comprising the additional steps of:\n removing the second portion of the second layer from the second portion of the first layer to expose the adhesive on the second portion of the first layer; and \n contacting the first portion of the second layer with the adhesive on the second portion of the first layer to affix the second portion of the first layer to the second layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15336331', '13750448', '12665581', '15008361', '14836233']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5819465290604198
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5308695738057001
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5768388335349478
- Mean Citation Score: 223.27651
- Max Citation Score: 415.36282
- Similarity Product: 267.7714332536781

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

Dataset: test