PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15955188
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["438", "683000"]

Abstract:
A titanium silicide region forming method includes: performing a pretreatment to expose a clean surface of a silicon layer of a workpiece; forming a titanium-containing region and a titanium silicide region on the silicon layer after performing the pretreatment; and supplying a fluorine-containing gas to the workpiece including the titanium-containing region and the titanium silicide region so as to selectively etch the titanium-containing region with respect to the titanium silicide region.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 2 , wherein a flow rate of the chlorine trifluoride gas is 5 sccm or less.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08333
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10686768', '11655917', '14742505', '10349312', '15698823']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.85280120154667
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4905594192879881
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8165770233208018
- Mean Citation Score: 153.89120799999995
- Max Citation Score: 162.06686000000005
- Similarity Product: 103.63911370194916

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

Dataset: test