How to Make Patent Drawings: A Patent It Yourself Companion » (REV)

Jack Lo is an inventor and a registered patent agent with many years of experience in preparing and prosecuting patent applications, including making formal patent drawings. He is the co-author of How to Make Patent Drawings Yourself.

Originally from Philadelphia, San Francisco Patent Attorney David Pressman is a graduate of Penn State University (BSEE) and George Washington University Law School (JD) where he was on the Law Review. He has over 40 years of experience in the patent profession -- as a patent examiner for the U.S. Patent Office, a patent attorney in corporate and private practice, a university instructor, a columnist, and as author of the Patent and Trademark entries to the World Book Encyclopedia. He is an expert on patent filing, prosecution, and licensing and his books have charted the path for over 250,000 inventors. Patent It Yourself is the most highly recommended guide to patenting an invention. Dave is also co-author of The Inventor's Notebook (with Fred Grissom), How to Make Patent Drawings Yourself (with Jack Lo), Patent Pending In 24 Hours (with Rich Stim), and Patents For Beginners (with Rich Stim).

Create formal patent drawings -- and save hundreds (or thousands) of dollars!

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The authors, a patent agent and a patent attorney, illustrate how to create formal patent drawings that comply with the rules of the U.S. Patent Office, a crucial and sometimes expensive step in the patenting process.

Your Legal Companion for How to Make Patent Drawings

1. General Introduction to Drawing
Different Drawing Views
Perspective Foreshortening
Drawing With a Pen, Ruler, and Instruments
Drawing With a Computer
Using a Camera
Summary

2. Drawing With Pen, Ruler, and Instruments
Necessary Tools and Supplies
Basic Drawing Rules and Techniques
Tracing Photographs and Objects
Drawing From Your Imagination
Drawing to Scale
Drawing Different View Angles
Drawing Graphical Symbols
Practice, Practice, Practice

3. Drawing With a Computer
Necessary Equipment and Software
Drawing From Scratch With 2D
Making Drawings by Tracing Photos
Drawing With 3D CAD
Drawing Graphical Symbols
Retaining Your Drawings
Summary

4. Using a Camera
Advantages and Disadvantages
Inventions Suited for Photography
Photographs Must Show Invention Clearly
Equipment
Taking Pictures
Summary

5. Patent Drawings in General
The Drawing Requirement
If No Drawing Is Submitted With a Patent Application
Three Types of Patent Drawings
Formal and Informal Drawings
Engineering Drawings Are Not Suitable

6. Utility Patent Drawings
Amount of Detail Required
Types of Views
Inventions With Moving Parts
Shading
Graphical Symbols
Multiple Embodiments
Line Types and Width

7. Design Patent Drawings
Amount of Detail Required
Views Required
Drawings Must Show All Features
Parts Behind Transparent Surfaces
Movable Parts
Surface Markings
Unclaimed Matter
Shading Techniques
Representation of Color and Material
Line Types
Photographs
MultipleEmbodiments

8. General Standards
Paper, Margins, and Sheet Numbering
Mediums
Arrangement and Numbering of Figures
Reference Numbers
Lead Lines
Arrows
Line Types
Character of Lines
Descriptive Legends
Scale of Drawing
Copyright or Mask Work Notice
Security Markings
Corrections
Prohibited Elements
Identification Information

9. Responding to Office Actions
Objections and Rejections
Reading the Statute and Rule Numbers
Objection or Rejection Under 35 U.S.C. § 112
Objection Under 37 CFR § 1.83(a) for Failure to Show Claimed Feature
Objection Under 37 CFR § 1.84(p)(4) for Improper Reference Numbers
Objection Under 37 CFR § 1.84(p)(5) for Missing Reference Numbers
Notice of Draftsperson's Patent Drawing Review
Do Not Add New Matter
Correcting the Drawings
Filing Corrected Drawings
Summary

A. Appendix: Tear-Out Forms
Petition for Submitting Color Photographs or Drawings
Submission of Corrected Drawings
Index