PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16126828
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["101", "170000"]

Abstract:
Provided are a printing plate, a method for manufacturing a printing plate, and a printing method that allow for high-resolution printing and efficient use of printing ink. The printing plate has an image area and a non-image area. The image area is formed by a layer containing silicone rubber. The non-image area is formed by a layer containing a fluorine compound on a surface of the layer containing silicone rubber. The height difference between a surface of the image area and a surface of the non-image area is 100 nm or less. The method for manufacturing a printing plate has the steps of subjecting a region of a surface of a layer containing silicone rubber to chemical treatment or physical treatment to form hydroxyl groups, the region being a region that becomes a non-image area; and binding a fluorine compound to the region, having the hydroxyl groups formed thereon, of the surface of the layer containing silicone rubber to form a non-image area. The printing method has an ink-applying step of applying a printing ink to an image area and a transfer step of transferring the printing ink from the image area to a substrate.

Claim (Index 20):
The printing method according to  claim 19 , wherein the ink-applying step includes applying the printing ink to the image area by an inkjet process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.15152
- Patent Class: 101.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15559663', '13202417', '12280865', '09882409', '12133397']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7313480357001927
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.511714394819277
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7093846716121012
- Mean Citation Score: 206.7505
- Max Citation Score: 224.43785
- Similarity Product: 141.37563096939027

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

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