PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977146
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["383", "075000"]

Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a thermoplastic drawstring trash bag wherein the thermoplastic drawstring trash bag has an enhanced thickness region in one or more panels of the drawstring trash bag. The enhanced thickness region has an average thickness that is greater than the thickness of the remaining portions of the panels forming the drawstring trash bag. The enhanced thickness region is generally in the area of the hems and traverses the hem seals.

Claim (Index 1):
A drawstring bag comprising:\n a first panel and a second panel, the first panel and second panel joined along a first side edge, a second side edge, and a bottom edge, a top edge of the first panel folded upon itself to form a first hem along an upper opening of the drawstring bag with a first hem seal defining a bottom of the first hem, the first hem seal extending from the first side edge to the second side edge of the drawstring bag, a first drawstring disposed and secured within the first hem, a first enhanced thickness region defined in the first panel, the first enhanced thickness region extending from the first side edge to a second side edge and traversing the first hem seal, and wherein an average thickness of the first enhanced thickness region is greater than an average thickness of the first panel excluding the first enhanced thickness region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 383.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14177389', '15397863', '14859414', '15659868', '15187914']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7829753076830239
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5490143095449016
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7595792078692117
- Mean Citation Score: 305.819648
- Max Citation Score: 430.17368
- Similarity Product: 399.1543955558394

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