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 20):
A system comprising:\n a tape dispensing source; a moveable first retainer positioned to receive tape from the dispensing source; a moveable second retainer aligned with the first retainer for receiving tape from the first retainer; and a tape activation source configured so that the first retainer and the second retainer can be positioned proximate to the tape activation source, wherein the first retainer and the second retainer are located relative to an article that includes at least one side panel and at least one end panel, and wherein there is at least one opening/closing flap contiguous with the at least one end panel so that an activated tape held by the first retainer and the second retainer can be applied to the at least one side panel or to the at least one opening/closing flap, or wherein the first retainer and the second retainer are located relative to an article that includes 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 so that an activated tape held by the first retainer and the second retainer can be applied to the first opening/closing flap or to 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): 0.7632718384586477
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4597365386987488
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7329183084826577
- Mean Citation Score: 184.60725
- Max Citation Score: 217.58063
- Similarity Product: 139.47912499821544

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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