PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957012
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["438", "692000"]

Abstract:
A chemical mechanical polishing method includes providing a pad conditioner, such that the pad conditioner includes a base and a plurality of tips protruding from a surface of the base, adjusting a surface roughness of an upper surface of each tip of the plurality of tips, and adjusting a polishing rate of chemical mechanical polishing using the adjusted surface roughness of the upper surfaces of the plurality of tips.

Claim (Index 20):
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device, the method comprising:\n providing a wafer; and polishing the wafer using a chemical mechanical polishing method, the chemical mechanical polishing method including:\n providing a pad conditioner, such that the pad conditioner includes a base and a plurality of tips protruding from a surface of the base, \n adjusting a surface roughness of an upper surface of each tip of the plurality of tips, and \n adjusting a polishing rate of chemical mechanical polishing using the adjusted surface roughness of the upper surfaces of the plurality of tips.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21212
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13241421', '15602256', '14117936', '14831280', '14004152']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8590626045067159
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5023969452373006
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8233960385797743
- Mean Citation Score: 228.303504
- Max Citation Score: 270.03186
- Similarity Product: 203.20090542456504

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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