PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16406059
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["438", "670000"]

Abstract:
In a method according to an exemplary embodiment, a substrate is prepared in a chamber. A patterned resist mask has been formed on a first region of the substrate. A surface of the substrate in a second region is exposed. A film is formed on the substrate in the chamber by sputtering. The film is formed on the substrate in a manner that particles emitted obliquely downward from a target are caused to be incident onto the substrate.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of forming a film on a substrate, the method comprising:\n preparing the substrate in a chamber, the substrate having a first region and a second region, a patterned resist mask being formed on the first region, and a surface of the second region being exposed; and forming the film on the substrate in the chamber by sputtering, in a state where the patterned resist mask exists on the first region, wherein the film is formed on the second region and partially formed on the patterned resist mask by causing particles emitted obliquely downward from a target to be incident onto the substrate while a relation between a predetermined direction defined for a pattern of the resist mask and a normal direction of a surface of the target is maintained, without forming the film on a portion of the patterned resist mask hidden in a direction along which the particles are incident onto the substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78723
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12563265', '13138340', '10259397', '10551136', '13399286']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8473853209527444
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4608827017122577
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8087350590286958
- Mean Citation Score: 128.98213
- Max Citation Score: 134.5763
- Similarity Product: 101.53835199587346

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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