PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16066548
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["383", "043000"]

Abstract:
A package which may be opened and closed using only one hand, without the need for any tools or a second hand subsequent to initial opening, is provided as a hand-held sized, flexible thermoplastic bag having a self-closing, manually openable closure employing at least two resilient stays, each of which is covered at least in part by a cover film which may be a non-shrink film or a heat shrinkable film. The stays and cover films form in conjunction with the package body opposing rolled edges or package wall ridges that facilitate opening and create a close-fitting interior closure surface along the abutting cover films.

Claim (Index 1):
A re-closable package comprising:\n (a) a package body having opposing top and bottom edges and a body wall disposed between the top and bottom edges, the body wall having a first body wall portion and a second body wall portion integrally connected to each other at opposing first and second package body side edges; and (b) a closure connected to the package body, the closure comprising: (i) a first stay having a first stay first longitudinal edge and an opposing first stay second longitudinal edge; (ii) a second stay having a second stay first longitudinal edge and an opposing second stay second longitudinal edge; (iii) a first cover film overlaying the first stay; (iv) a second cover film overlaying the second stay; wherein the first stay is disposed on the first body wall portion and the second stay is disposed on the second body wall portion opposite the first stay and in overlaying alignment; wherein the first cover film is attached to the first body wall portion along a first cover film first longitudinal attachment line in a direction corresponding to and in alignment with the first stay first longitudinal stay edge and along a first cover film second longitudinal attachment line in a direction corresponding to and in alignment with the first stay second longitudinal stay edge, wherein at least one first cover film longitudinal unsealed gap area is provided; and the second cover film is attached to the second body wall portion along a second cover film first longitudinal attachment line in a direction corresponding to and in alignment with the second stay first longitudinal stay edge and along a second cover film second longitudinal attachment line in a direction corresponding to and in alignment with the second stay second longitudinal stay edge, wherein at least one second cover film longitudinal unsealed gap area is provided; and wherein at least one longitudinal portion of the first body wall portion is transversely bent across the first cover film longitudinal unsealed gap area and at least one longitudinal portion of the second body wall portion is transversely bent across the second cover film longitudinal unsealed gap area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.47368
- Patent Class: 383.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15556706', '10262174', '15501218', '11267174', '10645186']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7632661516614829
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4566833766095769
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7326078741562924
- Mean Citation Score: 140.79860399999995
- Max Citation Score: 144.40118
- Similarity Product: 105.5217252504158

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