PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16109576
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["216", "041000"]

Abstract:
A method of etching PVD-coated stainless steel, may include machining to form irregularities on a surface of a steel member; coating the steel member by providing a coating layer on crests of the irregularities but not on throughs, the coating layer imparting color and texture to the steel member; masking in which the surface of the steel member is partially provided with a masking layer such that the surface of the steel member includes a masking area and an exposed area; and etching the coating layer provided on the exposed area to remove the coating layer.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein, at the masking of the steel member, a photosensitive film is attached on the surface of the steel member and a predetermined area of the photosensitive film is irradiated with ultraviolet light to remove the photosensitive film at a position corresponding to the exposed area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17021
- Patent Class: 216.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13130122', '11543812', '14149423', '15274731', '15763069']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7258336942376048
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4712947742734525
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7003798022411897
- Mean Citation Score: 141.14709
- Max Citation Score: 143.911
- Similarity Product: 105.89841566026207

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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