PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16090307
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["216", "078000"]

Abstract:
A method for etching a metal surface includes a step of contacting a metal surface with a protic compound for a first time period to produce a first modified surface. The first modified surface is contacted with a protic ligand-forming compound that reacts with the first modified surface to form a volatile metal-containing compound including a metal atom and the protic ligand-forming compound. The volatile metal-containing compound is removed from the vicinity of the metal surface.

Claim (Index 15):
The method of  claim 1  wherein steps a, b, and c are performed at a temperature from 50\u00b0 C. to 300\u00b0 C.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13514
- Patent Class: 216.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14318501', '13930471', '13765981', '13709564', '15010762']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7910349818360691
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5176173430883523
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7636932179612975
- Mean Citation Score: 278.130798
- Max Citation Score: 307.23584
- Similarity Product: 188.2502070324707

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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