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Need Patent Drawings?
Design, Utility or Trademark drawings are our specialty.
Utility patent drawings are created by our skilled patent illustrators to present your invention clearly.
We stay current with regulations for foreign filings and USPTO drawings (United States Patent & Trademark Office) updates.
Design Patent Drawings are created in AutoCAD as 3D models.
We then compute 2D views from the solid model, e.g. front view, back view, left side view, right side view, top view and bottom view.
Additionally a perspective or isometric view is created.
Formal patent drawings by our experienced patent illustrators will ensure that USPTO standards for patent drawings are followed. IP patent drafting is an integral part of the intellectual property
process. Accurate patent drawings will enhance any patent application.
Design Patents
Patent law provides for the granting of design patents to any person who has invented a new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture.
A design patent protects only the appearance of an article.
A design patent has a term of 17 years, and no fees are necessary to maintain a design patent in force.
The drawings of the design patent conform to the same rules as other drawings, but no reference characters are required.
The specification of a design patent application is short. Only one claim is permitted, following a set form.
Provisional Patent Application
A provisional patent is a completely new type of application
designed to secure a priority date without counting against the new patent term
of 20 years from the filing date of application.
Trademarks
A trademark relates to any word, name, symbol or device, which is
used in trade with goods to indicate the source or origin of the goods and to
distinguish them from the goods of others.
USPTO Patent Drawing Rules
Utilitarian Patent Drawings
Drawings must show every feature of the invention specified, and is required by the USPTO to be in a particular form.
Requirements relating to drawings are strictly enforced. Applicants are advised to employ competent patent illustrators to make their drawings.
Unclaimed areas in Design Patent Drawings may be
represented by broken lines. When the claim is directed to just surface ornamentation for an article, the article
in which it is embodied must be shown in broken lines.
Reference from: United States Patent and Trademark Office - A
Guide to Filing a Design Patent Application
Design Patent Drawings are the most important part of a design patent application, as the drawing “constitutes the entire visual disclosure of the claim”. Hence it is of utmost importance that the drawings are so well executed that “nothing regarding the design sought to be patented is left to conjecture”.
Additionally, all surfaces should be appropriately and adequately shaded to show clearly the character and contour of all surfaces represented.
Reference from: Manual of Patent Examining Procedure —MPEP1503.02
Drawing (R-5) 37 CFR 1.152. Design Drawings US Patent and Trademark Office.
The difference between Design & Utility Patents is that
a Utility patent protects the way an article is used and works, while a design
patent protects the way an article looks.
Reference from: United States Patent and Trademark Office - A
Guide to Filing a Design Patent Application —The Difference between Design
& Utility Patents
New Matter — Design Drawings
In design patent applications, if photographs or informal
drawings filed are inconsistent, you are generally not allowed to correct the
inconsistencies unless you can do so without adding new matter.
Nothing is allowed to be removed andnothing may be added when formalizing the figures.
Numbering & Page Count
Page count “must be placed in the middle of the top of the sheet,
but not in the margin” and should be larger than the reference numerals.
USPTO prefers patent drawing figure numbers and reference numerals to be portrait, however if a patent drawing needs to be oriented landscape, the figure numbers and reference numbers should also be landscape but the page count should remain as described above.
Photographs — Design & Utility Patents
Photographs, including photocopies of photographs, are not ordinarily permitted in utility and design patent applications.
The USPTO examiner may require a drawing in place of the photograph.
When tracing photographs to create formal drawings a patent draftsman will use
his or her knowledge of perspective theory to correct the distortion inherent
to photographs.
Surface Shading — Design & Utility Patent Drawings
A skilled draftsperson will make certain when preparing formal
utility or design patent drawings that shading is correctly applied.
Design & Utility Views
An experienced draftsperson will produce a set of patent drawings that best portrays your claims and describes your invention in a utility patent application. A design patent application “must contain a sufficient number of views to constitute a complete disclosure of the appearance of the design”.
Design Patent Views:
FIG 1. perspective view
FIG 2. front elevational view of figure 1
FIG 3. right side elevational view of figure 1
FIG 4. rear elevational view of figure 1
FIG 5. left elevational view of figure 1
FIG 6. top elevational view of figure 1
FIG 7. bottom elevational view of figure 1
Perspective views — Design Patent Drawings
While not required, it is suggested that perspective views be
submitted to clearly show the appearance and shape of a three-dimensional
design
Reference from: United States Patent and Trademark Office - A
Guide to Filing a Design Patent Application —The Views
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