PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15751866
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["216", "013000"]

Abstract:
A method of forming a metallic pattern on a substrate is provided. The method includes applying onto a metallic surface, a chemically surface- activating solution having an activating agent that chemically activates the metallic surface; non-impact printing an etch-resist ink on the activated surface to produce an etch resist mask according to a predetermined pattern, wherein at least one ink component within the etch-resist ink undergoes a chemical reaction with the activated metallic surface to immobilize droplets of the etch-resist ink when hitting the activated surface; performing an etching process to remove unmasked metallic portions that are not covered with the etch resist mask; and removing the etch resist mask.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of forming a metallic pattern on a substrate, the method comprising:\n applying onto a metallic surface coupled to the substrate, a chemically surface-activating solution having an activating agent that chemically activates the metallic surface; non-impact printing an etch-resist ink on the activated surface to produce an etch resist mask according to a predetermined pattern, wherein at least one ink component within the etch-resist ink undergoes a chemical reaction with the activated metallic surface to immobilize droplets of the etch-resist ink when hitting the activated surface; performing an etching process to remove unmasked metallic portions that are not covered with the etch resist mask; and removing the etch resist mask.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77273
- Patent Class: 216.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15835116', '10576936', '13162408', '12538300', '12100565']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7277311569831058
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4603419552987711
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7009922368146723
- Mean Citation Score: 119.688377
- Max Citation Score: 149.77483
- Similarity Product: 113.5953318435502

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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