Cover -- Table of Contents -- 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 -- Multiple Embodiments -- 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. ʹ 112 -- Objection Under 37 CFR ʹ 1.83(a) for Failure to Show Claimed Feature -- Objection Under 37 CFR ʹ 1.84(p)(4) for Improper Reference Numbers -- Objection Under 37 CFR ʹ 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 -- Appendix: Tear-Out Forms -- Petition for Submitting Color Photographs or Drawings -- Submission of Corrected Drawings -- Index -- Related Products -- Last Page.
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Patent drafters charge 75 to 100 per sheet to prepare drawings -- but you can draw them yourself!. How to Make Patent Drawings is an essential guide for inventors who want to complete a crucial step in the patenting process themselves -- creating formal patent drawings that comply with the strict rules of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (and save hundreds or even thousands of dollars).