PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16110417
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["355", "067000"]

Abstract:
A lithography apparatus detects a plurality of first substrate-side marks arranged with respect to a part of shot regions on which patterning is to be performed by using the first original in the lithography apparatus and detects a plurality of second substrate-side marks arranged with respect to other shot regions different from the part of the shot regions on which patterning is to be performed by using the second original different from the first original in another lithography apparatus. The lithography apparatus outputs information on detection results of the plurality of second substrate-side marks to be available in the other lithography apparatus. Then, based on detection results of the plurality of first substrate-side marks, the lithography apparatus performs patterning while performing alignment with the first original with respect to the part of the shot regions.

Claim (Index 5):
A patterning method of performing patterning for forming a pattern of a first original and a pattern of a second original different from the first original on a substrate by using a plurality of lithography apparatuses that include a first lithography apparatus and a second lithography apparatus, the method comprising:\n in the first lithography apparatus, detecting a plurality of first substrate-side marks arranged with respect to, out of a plurality of shot regions of the substrate, a part of shot regions on which the patterning is to be performed by using the first original in the first lithography apparatus; detecting a plurality of second substrate-side marks arranged with respect to, out of the plurality of shot regions, other shot regions different from the part of the shot regions on which the patterning is to be performed by using the second original in the second lithography apparatus; outputting information on detection results of the plurality of second substrate-side marks to be available in the second lithography apparatus; and based on detection results of the plurality of first substrate-side marks, performing the patterning while performing alignment with the first original with respect to the part of the shot regions, and in the second lithography apparatus, detecting a reference mark out of the plurality of second substrate-side marks; obtaining information on detection results of the plurality of second marks output from the first lithography apparatus; and based on a detection result in the detecting and the information obtained in the obtaining, performing the patterning while performing alignment with the second original with respect to the other shot regions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.91667
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15505999', '14456192', '10178234', '14334230', '15673303']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6558848518114865
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4713379807618302
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6374301647065208
- Mean Citation Score: 198.551866
- Max Citation Score: 210.83014
- Similarity Product: 168.06597635951638

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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