PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15945585
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["220", "574000"]

Abstract:
An expandable bowl has an open top and a plurality of configuration changing side members connecting the open top to a base member. The configuration changing side members are designed to allow a user to pull the base member to changing the side members from a collapsed configuration to an expanded configuration, thereby increasing the overall volume of the bowl. The expandable bowl may be useful for various products, such as pre-packaged salads, where the salads may be packaged and displayed in the collapsed configuration, thereby minimizing shelf space, and may be changed to the expanded configuration by a user to permit tossing of the salad without risking spillage of the contents of the bowl.

Claim (Index 16):
A method for selling and consuming a prepackaged salad, comprising:\n filling an expandable bowl of an expandable bowl assembly, in its collapsed configuration, with salad; placing a lid on the expandable bowl; displaying or serving the prepackaged salad to a consumer; expanding the expandable bowl into an expanded configuration; placing salad dressing on the salad; and mixing the salad dressing with the salad inside the expandable bowl in the expanded configuration, wherein\n the expandable bowl includes one or more configuration transition side members formed as a ring-shaped portion of the side member between the top opening and the base of the expandable bowl, each of the one or more configuration transition side members having an inner surface defining a portion of the interior of the bowl, and two or more non-transforming side members formed as a ring-shaped portion of the side member disposed adjacent each of the one or more configuration transition side members, each of the two or more non-transforming side members having an inner surface defining another portion of the interior of the expandable bowl, and a plurality of notched regions formed in each of the one or more configuration transition side members, wherein the inner surface of each of the two or more non-transforming side members are smooth and continuous about the ring shape, \n wherein the expandable bowl is transformable between the expanded configuration, where at least one of the one or more configuration transition side members are angled inward and downward toward the base of the bowl, and the collapsed configuration, where each of the one or more configuration transition side members are angled inward and upward toward the top opening of the expandable bowl, where an interior volume of the expandable bowl in the expanded configuration is greater than the interior volume of the expandable bowl in the collapsed configuration, and where at least one of the one or more configuration transition side members is sandwiched between the two or more non-transforming side members.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01639
- Patent Class: 220.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15666556', '12329264', '15494336', '14977622', '11857230']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8224559293432884
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4774516488248363
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7879555012914431
- Mean Citation Score: 168.218146
- Max Citation Score: 182.21675
- Similarity Product: 122.95300575610996

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