Posts Tagged: patent drawings
How to Avoid USPTO Rejections in Patent Drawings
Accurate and clear patent drawings strengthen and enhance patent applications, helping patent examiners who are already overburdened with applications to understand inventions faster. In this article, we …
Patent Drafting Basics: Instruction Manual Detail is What You Seek
In some important ways a patent application should be akin to an instruction manual, but unlike the aforementioned BBQ grill, the reader of relevant skill in the …
Provisional Applications: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Provisional applications can be a very useful tool, but only when they are done right. When provisional patent applications are done poorly you not only obtain no …
Requisites of a Patent Application: Claims and drawings technically not required on filing date
For as long as I can remember, in order for a nonprovisional utility patent application to be awarded the all important filing date you had to file …
5 things inventors and startups need to know about patents
One big problem independent inventors face when they choose to represent themselves is with respect to the very real problem of admissions. Truthfully, those who are representing …
Patent Drawings: An Economical Way to Expand Disclosure
U.S. patent law requires a patent applicant to furnish at least one patent drawing (sometimes referred to as a patent illustration) of the invention whenever the …
Patent Drawings and Invention Illustrations, What do you Need?
If you are going to file a patent application you must have drawings to include in the application, but patent drawings are not the only type of "…
Patent Drawings 101: The Way to Better Patent Applications
To properly accomplish the goal of having the best disclosure possible you should also not think in terms of a single patent drawing or illustration, but rather …
Completely Describe Your Invention in a Patent Application
Simply said, a patent application is only as good as what is included within the application, and general or vague descriptions do nothing more than guarantee that …
Working with Patent Illustrations to Create a Complete Disclosure
What you are looking at here is something that is similar to a Big Mac because it has two beef patties, which are identified by reference numeral 10. …
5 Things to Know About Patent Law Firm Management
Are you a patent attorney or patent agent setting up your own firm? Are you presently at a firm but considering splitting off and going it on …
Patent Drawings: An Economical Way to Expand Disclosure
While formally compliant drawings are not technically always required at the time of filing, there are significant benefits to submitting professional patent illustrations at the time of …
Turning Your Idea into an Invention
One thing that many individuals and professional inventors employed by corporations (i.e., "kept inventors") have in common is that they frequently do not perceive what they …
Patent Illustrations and Invention Drawings, What do you Need?
Over the years I have worked with many inventors as they seek to move forward with their inventions. As a patent attorney it is no great surprise …
The Art of the Patent, Raising Money on Kickstarter
Kickstarter is becoming more popular given the press it has received from the New York Times, CNN and NPR, but are they successful at raising money for …
