Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about our patent drawing services, including details on processes, delivery timelines, pricing, and more. This section is designed to help you understand our services better and make informed decisions.
Geting Started
Design patent drawings are very different from the utility patent drawings.
The utility patent drawings show the functional elements of an invention, whereas the design patent drawings show the appearance or the surface texture.
Autodesk is best for creating 3D design and engineering software.
The Autodesk Product Design Suite is a comprehensive 3D product design tool that provides everything a design engineer requires.
It includes simulation, visualization, collaboration, and digital prototyping tools.
However, it is best to seek help from the professionals.
The utility patent protects the composition, structure or function of an invention, whereas the design patent protects the non-functional aesthetics of a product.
You can tell if a patent is a utility or design patent by looking at the patent number.
A design patent comprises of a number that starts with a “D,” (ex. D916873).
However, a utility patent only comprises of numbers (ex. 865754968).
The estimated cost to get a utility patent is around $7000 to $20,000.
It includes the cost of preparing and filing a utility patent application (short term cost).
Also, including the cost to examine the utility patent application (long term cost).
You must submit a design patent application in black and white or in color.
Photographs are not allowed in a design patent application by the USPTO.
However, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office allow the photographs in design patent applications if they are the only practicable medium for illustrating the invention.
NO, one cannot patent an idea for an invention.
You must produce the invention or file a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that contains the invention.
Even though every invention starts with an idea, we cannot call every idea an Invention.
To purchase a drawing/illustration package, all you need is a valid credit card or a PayPal account. Please refer to the FAQ section on ‘Ordering a Utility Patent Drawing / Design Patent Drawing’ for details on how to purchase. You need to either sign in “My Account” or create and activate a new account when checking out.
According to the first part of section 171, there are 4 requirements for design patentability:
–Novelty
–Ornamentality
–Originality
–subject matter to be an article of manufacture
It is quite simple. On the PatSketch (Formerly The Patent Drawings Company) website, click on ‘Utility Patent Drawings’ or ‘Design Patent Drawings‘ to order patent drawings. Just follow the process you are guided through. You will be asked to share your details (your full name, business email, phone number, country name, etc.) before making the first purchase.
Class 16 includes paper, cardboard, and goods made from these materials.
We would certainly recommend to have a patentability search done to ascertain published patents/ patent applications and non-patent literature such as research papers, articles, conference presentations which implicitly or explicitly disclose the invention under study. A patentability search will lower the risk of encountering relevant prior art at the time of examination of the patent application and also provide an opportunity to the inventor to improve upon relevant prior arts at the initial stage. Please send us an email at [email protected] or call us at
(206) 278 3228 regarding the patentability search for your invention.
To trademark an image, contact an attorney to attain trademark clearance.
It is a permission to register the trademark after a thorough trademark search.
It not only finds exact matches of the image you want to trademark, but also the images with a close resemblance.
To protect the confidentiality of your invention we have uploaded our NDA on the website which you would be able to view while placing the order. Once, you click on the checkbox below the NDA it will get e-signed by both the parties and will get electronically executed. This will assure the protection/confidentiality of your invention.
Click here to read Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA).
For any query, please send us an email at [email protected] or call us at 206 278 5151.
The design trademark is used to register words or letters with a specific appearance.
It also includes a trademark consisting a design element, or a combination of specific stylized wording or design.
Yes, we recommend getting a professional patentability search done before moving on with drafting the drawings and the patent application. We can assist you by running a comprehensive patentability search and provide our general opinion on the patentability aspect of the invention. Please write us an email at [email protected] to inquire about our patentability search services.
A patentability search is actually a matter of choice.
However, it depends upon the reason behind the search.
Mostly, inventors perform a patent search if they have an invention worth patenting.
Also, sometimes inventors don’t have a complete invention, but wants to get an idea of the patent landscape.
It helps him to decide whether to continue the project or target other available spaces.
The usual number of drawings which the patent office requires for a design patent application is 7 – including 6 planar views and a perspective view, at times there can still be more based on the complexity of the design. For a Utility patent application the drawings should cover all the functional aspects of the invention which are claimed in the patent, so, the number of drawings may vary based on the nature of the invention.
If you are not sure, get in touch at [email protected]. Our experts will help you define the number of drawings needed.
Patentability Search is also known as Novelty Search or Prior Art Search.
In other words, a patentability search means searching for any reference that discloses exact or similar invention to the one we want to patent.
The patent drawing must include application number, Invention’s name, Inventor’s name, and any sort of authorized identification.
Keep the size of the drawing 11inch by 8.5 inches and white in color.
You must prepare flexible, plane, non-shiny drawing.
Also, it must be free of overwriting, alterations and erasing marks.
A Patent invalidity or opposition search identifies patent and non-patent documents which impacts the claims of a particular patent.
It helps to block other patents and maintain the solidity of the patent portfolio.
The patent drawings depict the visual disclosure of the patent claim.
Thus, it is important to produce clear and accurate patent drawings according to the specific guidelines and USPTO’s patent drawing rules.
Here are a few general steps that you may follow to conduct a prior art search yourself:
-Research the keywords that describe the invention.
-Search various patent databases.
-Search beyond the databases as well.
-Know when to conclude the search.
The drawing must have an appropriate title that clearly satisfies the purpose of the drawing.
It must have the name of the inventor, application number, or docket number (if provided) on the front of each sheet and centered within the top margin.
You must file a Design patent application after finalizing the look of an invention.
In other words, design patents now have increased consequentially value and strength.
Thus, are worth pursuing more than in the past.
To prepare utility patent drawings, you have 2 options:
-Hire a professional draftsperson or drafting company.
-You can prepare them yourself.
However, to prepare legal patent drawings, you must seek help from a professional draftsperson.
The major set of engineering drawing standards is ASME Y14. 5 and Y14. 5M.
It was last revised in 2009.
It applies mostly in the US.
Moreover, ISO 8015 (Geometrical product specifications (GPS) — Fundamentals — Concepts, principles and rules) is important too.
A utility patent protects the functional or structural or aspects of an invention.
The utility patent drawings help to define a complex invention and play an important role in the patent application process.
To extract infromation from engineering drawings, you must try to read the Information Blocks.
They contain necessary information about the assembly.
Located in the bottom right-hand corner of the drawing.
They provide details about the drawing such as part number, description, material etc.
The main information blocks are:
-Title block
-Revision Block
-Bills of material block
Finally, the lines depict the surface and the inner or outer parts.
Creating My Account
You will be asked to share your details (your full name, business email, phone number, etc.) before making the first purchase. You also have the option of directly registering at “My Account” page where you need to submit your business email. Once you click on that Register button, you will receive your account details on registered email. Further, you can edit your password and account details.
About Our Services
Numbering, lining and other elements are included in a patent drawing based on the requirement of the respective patent office. We have expert patent draftsperson that are well acquainted with the patent drawing rules and rest assured that we will do things accordingly. You can share these details as per your needs during the start of the project or as input once the drawings have been finalized.
Following are the formats that we will be using create client’s drawings: AutoCAD, TurboCAD, Autodesk Inventor, SolidWorks, CorelDraw Suite, Visio, etc.
Any corrections needed due to our error will be done at no charge. Small revisions will be done at no charge. Changes to the scope of the project and additional drawings will be charged at our normal rate.
You can download our sample page: https://thepatentdrawingscompany.com/samples/ .
Our prices are per drawing and not per sheet.
Yes, we include numbering and also other necessary elements as per the specified rules of the respective patent office including sheet size, line-types, shading style everything. However, we will need to know the numberings from you in order to incorporate it into the drawings.
This is a per figure cost, every view will cost an additional $39 / $29.
We are available Monday to Friday. Please call on the number provided.
Yes, we can do that. Numbering is essential and can be provided once the first draft of our drawings has been completed. Our expert draftsperson will use them to incorporate it into the final drawings.
We prefer to accept payments via Pay Pal. However, if you are not comfortable with it, we can also accept wire transfers.
We assure you that our pricing is pretty straight-forward and very transparent. For example, we don’t charge extra for each block in a block diagram – it would be a single figure. Similarly, a flowchart would be considered as a single figure. However, for example, multiple graphs in the same figure would be considered as separate figures because we will have to draw each of them separately or for example, Figs. 1a, 1b and 1c showing different embodiments of the same invention would be considered as separate figures.
Yes, you can. Go to our service pages, and through that page you can submit a sample of your product. However, if we have any questions on the details of the drawings, our experts will contact you.
Yes, we can draft the complete provisional as well as the non-provisional patent application. This service covers drafting the drawings, specification, claims of the patent application. Please send us an email at [email protected] to inquire about our patent application drafting services.
We sign an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) with every client that we work with. All our employees also have signed an NDA with us to prevent any leakage of any kind of confidential information.
Go to our home page, click on Utility or Design patent drawings based on your requirements, enter your basic details, review the NDA and click on the check-box below it to get it e-signed, upload the figures/images, checkout, make the payment and your order will get placed.
If you have it, it will be great and will help us make better drawings in the first go itself. Else, if you don’t, no worries – we will prepare the first draft based on what we have and can do iterations based on your feedback.
Please Visit the HOW IT WORKS section and view INPUT REQUEST DETAILS AND UPLOAD FILES.
Link for the same, https://thepatentdrawingscompany.com/
The answer depends on what sort of protection you are seeking for your invention. If you wish to secure the functionality of your invention, then you file a utility patent. . A utility patent will grant you exclusive rights to produce and sell a certain article for a given span of time.
Anything that can describe your invention including sketches, prototypes, 3d-renderings, photogrphs, videos etc. will work for us. Even if you don’t have one of these we can create it from scratch based on the subject matter of the invention and rough hand drawn sketches.
Just visit the MY ACCOUNT section at the HOME page and login your details.
Link, https://thepatentdrawingscompany.com/account/
Yes, we can create a prototype based on the description of the invention but we still will like to receive a hand drawn image of the drawing. Also, such a situation usually requires multiple iterations and normal pricing and delivery dates are not applicable.
You must visit the following link and fill a small form, to get the drawings samples.
Link, https://thepatentdrawingscompany.com/samples/
Yes, we can create a drawing from specifications without an exact picture but we still will like to receive a hand drawn image of the drawings. Also, such a situation usually requires multiple iterations and normal pricing and delivery dates are not applicable.
Ordering a Utility Patent drawing Design Patent-Drawing
Changes or cancellations to an already placed order can be done in two ways:
- By sending an email to the account manager assigned to you for this delivery (the details will be in your order confirmation email).
- By calling our customer services helpline at +1 (206) 278 3228
While we will make every attempt to change your order, additional charges may apply if work on the request has begun or if the scope changes significantly. Therefore, please make changes as soon as you can.
Delivering Your Report
The drawing can be delivered in any of the below mentioned formats:
- DWG
- IGES
- CAT
- CAD
- SLD
- AI
- VSD
- ASM
- STL
- EASM
However, if you have some specific requirement or preferences, it will be delivered in that format only.
Troubleshooting
You may search a patent in the USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database (PatFT).
The USPTO contains full text for issued patents from1976 to till date.
Here, you may find the PDF images for all patents from 1790 to the present.
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