PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16051213
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["312", "265500"]

Abstract:
An article of modular furniture such as a drawer, case, cabinet, or table is provided. The article of furniture uses a first panel with a dovetail tab and a straight tab and a second panel with a dovetail slot and a straight slot. The first panel is flexed in order to insert the dovetail tab and the straight tab into the respective dovetail slot and straight slot and is then un-flexed to complete the assembly.

Claim (Index 1):
An article of modular furniture comprising:\n a first panel comprising a first tab and a second tab; wherein the second tab comprises a neck portion and an enlarged distal end which extends laterally beyond the neck portion; a second panel comprising a first slot and a second slot; wherein the second slot includes an open insertion portion and a retaining portion having a narrowed opening and an enlarged section; wherein the second tab is located in the second slot such that the second tab neck portion is disposed in the second slot narrowed opening and the second tab enlarged distal end is disposed in the second slot enlarged section such that the second tab cannot be removed from the second slot in a direction perpendicular to the second panel; wherein the first tab is located in the first slot; wherein the first panel is disposed generally perpendicular to the second panel; wherein the open insertion portion of the second slot is disposed in non-linear alignment with the first slot so that the first panel must be flexed to displace the first tab with respect to the second tab in order to insert the first tab into the first slot and the second tab into the insertion portion of the second slot; and wherein the first panel is un-flexed after positioning the first tab into the first slot and the second tab in to the second slot whereby the second tab moves from the second slot insertion portion into the second slot retaining portion and is held captive in the second slot.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.025
- Patent Class: 312.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13550709', '10823289', '13248236', '14134920', '14214914']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7795857019925077
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4876654598317278
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7503936777764296
- Mean Citation Score: 197.688616
- Max Citation Score: 212.64143
- Similarity Product: 158.43510357093692

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

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