PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16038784
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["229", "067400"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure is directed to a folder including a magnetic closure adapted for use in a visual management system. The folder includes a back flap and a front flap that cooperate to define a storage area for papers. The magnetic closure is configured to selectively hold the folder in a closed position.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of updating a visual management system, the method comprising\n providing a folder for storing papers, the folder including (i) a back flap the back flap having a top edge, a bottom edge, a left side edge, and a right side edge, (ii) a front flap comprising flexible polymeric materials, the front flap having a top edge aligned with the top edge of the back flap, a bottom edge spaced apart from the bottom edge of the back flap, a left side edge aligned with the left edge of the back flap, and a right side edge spaced apart from the right edge of the back flap, wherein the front flap is coupled to the back flap along the top edge of the back flap and along the left side edge of the back flap while remaining free along the bottom edge of the front flap and the right side edge of the front flap so as to provide a free corner of the front flap suitable to be lifted away from the back flap by a user to move the front flap from a closed position to an opened position, and (iii) a magnetic closure including a patch of flexible non-magnetized magnetic-receptive material coupled via adhesive to the back flap and a magnet coupled to the front flap, the patch located adjacent to the free corner of the front flap within a footprint of the front flap when viewed from a front side of the folder, the magnet located adjacent to the free corner of the front flap within the footprint of the front flap when viewed from the front side of the folder, and the magnet arranged to move with the front flap from outside a footprint of the patch when viewed from the front side of the folder to within the footprint of the patch when viewed from the front side of the folder upon movement of the front flap to the closed position so that the front flap is held in the closed position and any papers arranged between the patch and the magnet are held in place within the folder when the front flap is in the closed position; lifting the free corner of the front flap of the folder to move the front flap to the opened position such that the magnetic closure is disengaged, inserting a sheet of paper into the folder between the back flap and the front flap, and lowering the free corner of the front flap of the folder to move the front flap to the closed position such that the magnetic closure is engaged so that the front flap is held in the closed position and the sheet of paper arranged between the patch and the magnet are held in place within the folder when the front flap is in the closed position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.55556
- Patent Class: 229.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11148882', '12354725', '09873436', '15161513', '14092135']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7566616993582259
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4465136172737248
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7256468911497759
- Mean Citation Score: 184.876052
- Max Citation Score: 187.30855
- Similarity Product: 128.79287085196376

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