PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15743618
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["229", "200000"]

Abstract:
Cartons or boxes ( 10, 40, 70, 90, 110, 130, 290, 330, 390 ) convertible between a closed, transport configuration and an open configuration permitting access to the carton contents are disclosed herein. The cartons ( 10, 40, 70, 90, 110, 130, 290, 330, 390 ) may provide the consumer or user an easy manner of transporting, opening, displaying, retaining, and/or protecting multiple individually wrapped packages or servings of product. In addition to graphics, these multipack cartons may include a handle ( 12 ), opening features ( 26, 28, 46, 96, 116, 138, 338 ), a changeable or alterable shape or configuration, and fasteners ( 118 ), among other features.

Claim (Index 8):
A carton comprising:\n a carton for retaining food product, the carton have a plurality of side panels; a tear strip disposed in the carton permitting a carton lid to be partially separated from a carton base after initial opening, the tear strip extending over at least some of the plurality of side panels but not entirely around the carton such that a retaining side panel prevents the complete separation of the carton lid from the carton base when the tear strip is removed from the carton; a hinge permitting the carton lid to rotate relative to the carton base after initial opening, the hinge formed by two lines of weakness formed in the retaining side panel; and a panel segment formed in at least one of the lower side panel portions by a base line of weakness, the base line of weakness permitting the carton base to collapse slightly inward from its original orthogonal configuration to permit the carton lid to easily fit over a portion of the carton base.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85897
- Patent Class: 229.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15550750', '12082453', '13040464', '11750697', '11448620']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8012673420622344
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4430076085592121
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7654413687119321
- Mean Citation Score: 210.34409
- Max Citation Score: 214.66786
- Similarity Product: 161.85896680567498

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