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 12):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the container is a paper board container.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36765
- Patent Class: 229.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13114993', '15529707', '11123240', '09193889', '11983984']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7841643898662016
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4614907004396398
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7518970209235455
- Mean Citation Score: 184.60725
- Max Citation Score: 217.58063
- Similarity Product: 140.44593727421343

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

Dataset: test