We have been preparing complex high-tech electronic schematic, mechanical, chemical and trademark illustrations for United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and The European Patent Organization (EPO) over the past thirty years.
Our Patent illustrations meet USPTO, PCT and International patent requirements. Our policy is to get patent drawings done accurately the first time, saving unnecessary patent attorney time, and expense.

Our Design Patent Drawings, Utility Patent Drawings and Trademark Drawings are prepared for IP Attorneys, Patent Law Firms and Inventors, nationally and internationally. Our talented team of draftspersons understands the importance of patent drawings in any patent application.

Patent Drawings
The applicant for a patent will be required by law to furnish a drawing of the invention whenever the nature of the case requires a drawing to understand the invention. The drawings must show every feature of the invention specified, and is required by USPTO rules to be in a particular form. The USPTO specifies the size of the sheet on which the drawing is made, the type of paper, the margins, and other details relating to the making of the patent drawings. Specifications regarding the patent drawings include Character of lines, hatching and shading, Scale, Reference characters, Symbols and legends, Views and Arrangement of views.
The requirements relating to patent drawings are strictly enforced. Applicants are advised to employ competent patent draftsmen to make their patent drawings.

UTILITLY PATENT DRAWINGS
A utility patent protects the structural or functional aspect of an invention. Our Patent Illustrators/Engineers understand product design and development and are therefore able to produce high quality utility patent drawings.
Clear utility patent drawings help define complex inventions. Relevant aspects of the invention can be clearly illustrated in plan or elevational views, perspective views, isometric views, sectional views and exploded views.
Lines, numbers and letters in utility patent drawings should be dark and uniformly thick.
Detailed description in a utility patent application can be structured according to the sequence of utility patent drawings.

Utility patent drawings are presented in two stages. 1.) On completion of first draft without annotations and, 2.) Final annotated utility patent drawings having linear shading and with some or no surface shading. (The requirements for surface shading are more relaxed with utility patents.)

DESIGN PATENT DRAWINGS The patent law provides for the granting of design patents to any person who has invented any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture. The design patent protects only the appearance of an article, and not its structure or utilitarian features.
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 application is short. Only one claim is permitted, following a set form.

"As the drawings in a design patent application constitutes the whole disclosure of the design it is of utmost importance that the drawings be so well executed that nothing regarding the design is left to conjecture.
Additionally, all surfaces should be appropriately and adequately shaded to show clearly the character and contour of all surfaces represented"

Design Patent Drawings (our specialty) are created in AutoCAD as 3D models. (All dimensions for every surface are encoded into the model.) We then compute 2D views from this solid model, e.g. front, back, left, right, top and bottom. Additionally a perspective view is rotated to the desirable orientation and projected. The projections are all 100% accurate even on the most complicated assemblies or components.

Design patent drawings are usually presented in two stages. 1.) Finalization of first draft, and 2.) Finalization of final draft having included all surface and linear shading

Provisional 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. Provisional applications are intended to be simple and inexpensive. No claims are needed; no oath or declaration is needed. A provisional application, however, will never issue as a patent and it will automatically go abandoned twelve months after it is filed.

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. Our experienced Graphic Designers have vase knowledge of logo design and will create trademark drawings as per USPTO requirements. Unless color is claimed as a feature of the trademark, the trademark drawings should be black & white with no gray areas.

Allow us to supply you with a fixed price quotation for any patent drafting project. Our fixed prices are based on the amount of time it takes to produce formal patent drawings. Prices will be quoted per page, per figure or per project.