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 1):
A method of forming a tamper evident tag connectable to an article by a tag fastener, the tag fastener having first and second opposite terminal ends, the method comprising the steps of:\n inserting the tag fastener through the article at a user selected location such that the second terminal end of the tag fastener retains the article on the tag fastener; providing printing on a second layer of a tamper evident tag; inserting the first terminal end of the tag fastener through a first layer of the tamper evident tag and the second layer of the tamper evident tag such that the article and the first and second layers of the tamper evident tag are provided between the first terminal end and a second terminal end of the tag fastener, the second terminal end of the tag fastener being spaced from the tamper evident tag, the first layer being larger than the second layer, and the second layer being adapted for receiving printing thereon; and folding a first portion of the first layer of the tamper evident tag over a second portion of the first layer so as to capture the second layer of the tamper evident tag between the first and second portions of the tamper evident tag and to capture the first terminal end of the tag fastener between the first portion of the first layer and the second layer of the tamper evident tag; wherein at least a portion of the first layer of tamper evident tag is transparent such that the printing on the second layer of the tamper evident tag is visible through the first layer of the tamper evident tag.

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): 0.5783500616626207
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5368381481537015
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5741988703117288
- Mean Citation Score: 223.27651
- Max Citation Score: 415.36282
- Similarity Product: 341.5505019297719

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