PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976507
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "751000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for forming an interconnect on a substrate is provided. A protective layer is formed on the substrate and in a via formed on the substrate wherein the protective layer is resistant to a halogen containing material. A barrier layer is formed on top of the protective layer. The barrier layer comprises a halogen containing material. A metal layer is deposited over the barrier layer. In another embodiment, the protective layer is selectively deposited in the via.

Claim (Index 12):
The interconnect of  claim 11 , wherein the second metal layer fills a trench or via.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23077
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14711135', '14291466', '12074108', '15498024', '14162993']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.936063505219099
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5050439820734474
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8929615529045338
- Mean Citation Score: 184.119816
- Max Citation Score: 241.29466
- Similarity Product: 154.92180494415285

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