PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15947419
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["383", "203000"]

Abstract:
A flat-bottomed bag is formed from a flexible sheet that initially is flat prior to being manipulated to form the bag. The sheet is a laminate of a first web and a second web laminated together by an adhesive layer disposed between the webs. The sheet defines a plurality of serially connected side wall panels collectively defining a vertically extending side wall of the bag, and a plurality of bottom panels respectively connected to the side wall panels at respective fold lines. The bottom panels are folded about the fold lines and are attached together to form a flat bottom wall configured to support the bag in an upright orientation. The adhesive layer is in a partial-coverage pattern that includes adhesive-free regions located along each fold line between each bottom panel and the respective side wall panel connected therewith.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for forming a blank to be formed into flat-bottomed bag, comprising:\n providing a first web and a second web; pattern applying an adhesive to an adhesive-region of the first web; laminating the first web to the second web via the adhesive; forming a blank from the laminate, the blank defining:\n a front panel; \n a left side panel joined to a left side edge of the front panel; \n a right side panel joined to a right side edge of the front panel; \n either a single rear panel joined to one of the left or right side panels, or a pair of partial rear panels respectively joined to each of the left and right side panels; \n a plurality of bottom panels respectively joined to lower edges of the front, left side, right side, and rear panels; and \n fold lines respectively formed at each juncture between said panels; \n wherein the pattern applied adhesive is not applied to a plurality of adhesive-free fold line regions, wherein the adhesive-free fold line regions:\n extend along at least part of the length of each fold line, between each bottom panel and the respective front, left side, right side, or rear panel joined therewith, and \n extend at least partially above and below each fold line.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9863
- Patent Class: 383.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13721809', '10325267', '13009503', '15382620', '13868658']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7648889923000064
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5478319645608447
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7431832895260903
- Mean Citation Score: 260.324264
- Max Citation Score: 427.98273
- Similarity Product: 387.09145430937417

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

Dataset: test