Starting Your Patent Illustration Project Off On the Right Foot
You can help us provide formal drawings faster, with less back and forth communication, by copy/pasting the text block below into your initial drawing request email.
Your illustration team at Legal Advantage LLC will act on your instructions without the need to seek clarification on minor formatting points (e.g. letter paper vs. A4).
In fact, the text block below makes an excellent email template in Outlook and other mail software. Open and send for every job!
DRAWING INSTRUCTIONS:
BILLING REFERENCE: __________ (Your firm’s internal billing reference.)
DESIRED DELIVERY DATE: _________ (A short delivery may result in a rush fee being charged. We target 5 business days for a drawing project of average scope – i.e. a seven figure design patent.)
PROJECT TYPE: ________ (e.g. Utility or Design Patent?)
PAGE FORMAT: (Letter page format for USPTO filing, or A4 for PCT filing, or Both)
HEADERS / INDICIA: ___________
PAGE NUMBERS (X/XX): Insert page numbers? Y/N
FILE FORMAT?: PDF formatted for electronic filing is the most standard.
FILING STATUS?: Have informals been filed? Y/N
(It can be helpful to know this so that new matter can be avoided in formalization of the figures.)
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: ____________
(Often a figure list is helpful, and will avoid uncertainty…)
- FIG. 1 is a front right perspective view thereof;
- FIG. 2 is a front elevation view thereof;
- FIG. 3 is a rear elevation view thereof;
- FIG. 4 is a left side elevational view thereof;
- FIG. 5 is a right side elevational view thereof;
- FIG. 6 is a top plan view thereof; and,
- FIG. 7 is a bottom plan view.