PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16148558
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["229", "120000"]

Abstract:
A container of consumer goods includes a rigid outer box and a rigid inner box wherein a pull tab is configured to reseal a pre-cut opening in the inner box. The pull tab includes a cover layer larger than the pre-cut opening. The cover layer can be a piece of bundle wrap with a paper layer of the bundle wrap contacting the consumer goods inside the box. The outer box has a hinged lid permanently attached to a connecting tab of the pull tab whereby opening the hinged lid simultaneously opens the pre-cut opening in the inner box by lifting the pull tab. The connecting tab includes adhesive which is partially deadened to decrease adhesion of the connecting tab to the inner box. The pull tab can also include one or more machine readable markings to enhance automated application of the pull tab to an inner box blank during manufacturing of the container.

Claim (Index 1):
A pull tab for closing an opening in an inner box for consumer goods, wherein the inner box fits within an outer box including a hinged lid configured to provide access to an inner volume of the outer box, and the inner box includes a front wall, a top wall and the opening, the opening extending at least across part of the top wall and part of the front wall, the opening configured to provide access to consumer goods in an inner volume of the inner box, the pull tab comprising:\n a rectangular sheet of polymer material including a zone of re-stick adhesive on an underside thereof, the zone of re-stick adhesive configured to releasably adhere to an area of the top wall and an area of the front wall when the hinged lid is closed; a paper liner adhered to a central portion of the rectangular sheet, the paper liner having an outer periphery inwardly of an outer periphery of the rectangular sheet, the outer periphery of the paper liner extending beyond the opening such that the paper liner overlays the opening and portions of the inner box surrounding the opening when the hinged lid is closed; and a line of weakness forming a connecting tab at an end of the rectangular sheet of polymer material, the zone of re-stick adhesive on the underside of the rectangular sheet including one or more triangular-shaped areas of re-stick adhesive on an underside of the connecting tab.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27143
- Patent Class: 229.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15668822', '15446789', '15292913', '15420862', '15616450']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7987446421138459
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5481500676570927
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7736851846681706
- Mean Citation Score: 400.26537800000006
- Max Citation Score: 484.44565
- Similarity Product: 469.6568064942241

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

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