PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15937260
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["438", "715000"]

Abstract:
There is provided an etching method which includes supplying an etching gas including an H 2  gas or an NH 3  gas to a target substrate having a germanium portion in an excited state; and etching the germanium portion.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the target substrate has the germanium portion and a silicon-containing portion, and the germanium portion is selectively etched with respect to the silicon-containing portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.36667
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15935616', '15450595', '15926380', '15013257', '12707193']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8515315907687729
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5055251361282208
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8169309453047178
- Mean Citation Score: 227.565914
- Max Citation Score: 273.08817
- Similarity Product: 231.07691926873684

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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