PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16020486
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["229", "100000"]

Abstract:
Methods, articles, and apparatus that provide a dual function closure/opening system that utilizes a tape serving as both a sealing closure and as an opening mechanism. For example, in one embodiment, a single adhesive tape is introduced between a container flap and a container panel and then the container flap and the container panel are pressed together forming a bond between the flap and the panel via the adhesive tape thereby closing the container. In another embodiment, one end of a container includes two overlapping flaps and a single adhesive tape is introduced between the overlap of the two container flaps and then the container flaps are pressed together forming a bond between the flaps via the adhesive tape thereby closing the container. The methods and apparatus disclosed herein are directed to any container with at least one flap that overlaps a side panel of the container or that overlaps another flap.

Claim (Index 19):
An article comprising:\n (i) at least one paper board side panel and at least one paper board end panel, wherein there is at least one paper board opening/closing flap contiguous with the at least one end panel or (ii) at least one end first opening/closing flap and at least one side panel, wherein there is a second opening/closing flap contiguous with the at least one side panel; and a single tape comprising a carrier substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface, a first activated adhesive composition disposed on the carrier substrate first surface and a second activated adhesive composition disposed on the carrier substrate second surface, wherein the tape is positioned between (i) the at least one side panel and the opening/closing flap such that the first activated adhesive composition is adhesively secured to the at least one side panel and the second activated adhesive composition is adhesively secured to the folded opening/closing flap so as to form a seal between the side panel and the opening/closing flap or (ii) the first opening/closing flap and the second opening/closing flap such that the first activated adhesive composition is adhesively secured to the at first opening/closing flap and the second activated adhesive composition is adhesively secured to the folded second opening/closing flap so as to form a seal between the first opening/closing flap and the second opening/closing flap, and wherein (i) the set bond strength of the first adhesive composition to the at least one side panel does not substantially exceed the strength of the internal bond strength of the paper board of the at least one side panel or (ii) the set bond strength of the first adhesive composition to the second opening/closing flap does not substantially exceed the strength of the internal bond strength of the paper board of the second opening/closing flap.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36765
- Patent Class: 229.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13114993', '15529707', '11123240', '09193889', '11983984']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7654492364418845
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.447386886390258
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7336430014367219
- Mean Citation Score: 184.60725
- Max Citation Score: 217.58063
- Similarity Product: 162.08605407875416

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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