PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976285
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["438", "703000"]

Abstract:
A method is presented for transferring patterns to underlying films in patterning stacks. The method includes forming a lithographic stack over a hard mask stack, forming a photoresist layer over the lithographic stack, depositing a conductive cap over the photoresist layer, depositing an organic gap filling material over the conductive cap, and recessing the organic gap filling material to expose top surfaces of the conductive cap. The method further includes etching the exposed top surfaces of the conductive cap to expose top surfaces of the photoresist layer, removing the photoresist layer such that conductive cap sections remain over the lithographic stack, and forming trenches into the lithographic stack and the hard mask stack by using the conductive cap sections as a mask.

Claim (Index 13):
The method of  claim 12 , wherein the hard mask stack includes three layers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42593
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13402068', '14567567', '15812119', '14140060', '14459407']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.879609414947537
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5079753340026876
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.842446006853052
- Mean Citation Score: 255.219504
- Max Citation Score: 273.67612
- Similarity Product: 196.56192909363028

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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