PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884634
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["355", "053000"]

Abstract:
A liquid immersion exposure apparatus includes a projection system having a final optical element; a liquid-immersion-area-forming-member having an opening through which an exposure light is projected, the-liquid-immersion-area-forming-member having a removal outlet facing downward and a liquid supply inlet; a substrate stage having a substrate holding portion, which is movable below and relative to the projection system; and a controller. The controller controls movement of the substrate stage, so that when the substrate is moved from a first position to a second position in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the final optical element, the controller limits the movement of the substrate stage based on a positional relation between the first position and the second position.

Claim (Index 2):
The apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the positional relation includes a distance between the first position and the second position in the plane.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96875
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13317170', '15450611', '15706244', '15094678', '11662729']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7689662359282737
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5276052436628663
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.744830136701733
- Mean Citation Score: 256.124688
- Max Citation Score: 273.64978
- Similarity Product: 168.97604982563738

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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