Creating a drawing for a patent is very different from what we did in our school days. Unlike drawing in school, here we have certain rules and we must follow these rules religiously, failure to do so may result in patent application rejection. It doesn’t matter if the drawing is a utility patent drawing or a design patent drawing, we must follow these golden rules laid down by patent offices like the USPTO.
This is an article that will highlight some of these golden rules that a cartoonist must follow when creating a patent illustration for an invention.
Rules for patent lottery
Showing features clearly: It doesn’t matter if you are showing a device, a process or a design, putting all the features of the invention on paper and that is too precisely important. The patent illustrator needs to accurately document all the features of the invention.
All we can say is that we need to make sure that the patent examiner fully understands the feature of the item without putting stress on their eyebrows. Failure to include all the details may lead to the rejection of the patent.
For example, if you have a drawing of a mobile phone that has many functions, we must show each function of the mobile phone in such a way that anyone reviewing it can have a clear understanding of the invention.
Neatness: Even if you present the characteristics of your invention accurately but the drawing has some erasures, overwritings and alterations, you are at risk of being rejected. Although it is not documented anywhere that your patent artwork needs to be neat and clean, the patent office like the USPTO wants you to submit a clean, error-free drawing that is legible.
Readability: Legibility is the ability to distinguish various letters and is another criteria to be followed by a professional cartoonist where each text, word and image should not overlap its adjacent element. Failure to achieve optimal readability could lead to rejection of his request.
Readability: Readability is another criteria that is not documented anywhere, but we must follow it throughout this process. The spacing within words, between words, and between lines is such that the resulting text is once again visually readable.
Visually appealing: Not only do you need to have a legible drawing, but it also needs to be visually appealing where your drawing sheet has no creases, holes, or wrinkles.
Use metric system: Any dimension and size information presented in a patent disclosure will be in metric inches, preferably centimeters, for small devices we may use millimeters. Although the USPTO does not prohibit the use of English engineering units, they prefer the metric system and therefore we must follow this rule as well.
sheet size: The sheet size is another important criteria that we must follow in a patent drawing. Patent office like USPTO is very specific about sheet size and allows only two types of sheet size a) 21cm x 29.7cm which is also called A4 size and b) 21.6cm x 27 .9 cm, which is generally used by Americans.
Taken together, we can say that creating an illustration for invention is a science and an art that requires proper knowledge of regulatory standards as well as an artistic approach and therefore you can do justice to your invention only if you are a draftsman. experienced. -person.
