PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15988483
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["257", "750000"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device which ensure improved reliability, permit further miniaturization, and suppress the increase in manufacturing cost. The semiconductor device includes: a pad electrode formed in the uppermost wiring layer of a multilayer wiring layer formed over a semiconductor substrate; a surface protective film formed in a manner to cover the pad electrode; an opening made in the surface protective film in a manner to expose the pad electrode partially; and a conductive layer formed over the pad electrode exposed at the bottom of the opening. The thickness of the conductive layer formed over the pad electrode is smaller than the thickness of the surface protective film formed over the pad electrode.

Claim (Index 3):
The semiconductor device according to  claim 2 ,\n wherein the pad electrode includes a first barrier metal film, a first conductive film formed over the first barrier metal film, and a second barrier metal film formed over the first conductive film, wherein the first insulating film is formed over the second barrier metal film, wherein in an area exposed from the first insulating film, the second barrier metal film is removed and the first conductive film is exposed, wherein the second insulating film lies over an upper surface and side surfaces of the first insulating film and over side surfaces of the second barrier metal film, and over the first conductive film, in a manner to expose the first conductive film partially, wherein the conductive layer lies over the first conductive film and over the second insulating film formed over the first conductive film, and wherein thickness of the conductive layer formed over the first conductive film is smaller than a sum of thicknesses of the first insulating film and the second insulating film which are formed over the second barrier metal film.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34545
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15987169', '15900919', '14886088', '15621226', '15165265']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9310481606747136
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4970271200948358
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.887646056616726
- Mean Citation Score: 262.22097
- Max Citation Score: 268.80142
- Similarity Product: 223.2172466969061

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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