PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16109576
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["216", "041000"]

Abstract:
A method of etching PVD-coated stainless steel, may include machining to form irregularities on a surface of a steel member; coating the steel member by providing a coating layer on crests of the irregularities but not on throughs, the coating layer imparting color and texture to the steel member; masking in which the surface of the steel member is partially provided with a masking layer such that the surface of the steel member includes a masking area and an exposed area; and etching the coating layer provided on the exposed area to remove the coating layer.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein, at the machining of the steel member, the steel member is passed between rolls in which each surface of the rolls is configured with embossments to form the irregularity on the surface of the steel member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17021
- Patent Class: 216.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13130122', '11543812', '14149423', '15274731', '15763069']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7208533485644066
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4943861493263831
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6982066286406043
- Mean Citation Score: 141.14709
- Max Citation Score: 143.911
- Similarity Product: 87.11251198172569

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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