PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980899
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["427", "304000"]

Abstract:
Chemically resistant polymers are etched using a chrome-free etch solution which is aqueous and alkaline. The chrome-free etch aqueous alkaline solution is environmentally friendly and can be used in the preparation of chemically resistant polymers for electroless metal plating including the plating of through-hole walls in the manufacture of printed circuit boards.

Claim (Index 6):
The method of  claim 5 , further comprising contacting the solvent swell treated, etched, conditioned and catalyzed substrate with an electroless metal plating bath to electroless plate metal on the solvent swell treated, etched and conditioned substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.42105
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13863979', '13659937', '14467105', '13356004', '13795382']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.76119155146104
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5187985771165237
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7369522540265884
- Mean Citation Score: 214.939848
- Max Citation Score: 225.50627000000003
- Similarity Product: 130.95795176462534

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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