PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16126033
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["438", "947000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a method that includes coating an edge portion of a wafer by a first chemical solution including a chemical mixture of an acid-labile group, a solubility control unit and a thermal acid generator; curing the first chemical solution to form a first protecting layer on the edge portion of the wafer; coating a resist layer on a front surface of the wafer; removing the first protecting layer by a first removing solution; and performing an exposing process to the resist layer.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 16 , wherein\n the solubility control unit is chosen from lactone, ester, ether, ketone and a combination thereof; the acid-labile group includes a t-butoxycardbonyl (tBOC); and the thermal acid generator is chosen from NH 4 + C 4 F 9 SO 3 \u2212  and NH 4 + CF 3 SO 3 \u2212 .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97826
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15685908', '15169922', '14537347', '15697226', '15906187']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8421814415960247
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.52763260389138
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8107265578255602
- Mean Citation Score: 214.337612
- Max Citation Score: 329.88354
- Similarity Product: 281.155785091567

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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