How to Make Patent Drawings: A Patent It Yourself Companion (1413306535) - Reviews and Prices

Editorial Review:

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).
Written by two experts in the patent field, How to Make Patent Drawings shows you how to:

make utility patent drawings

make design patent drawings

utilize pen and paper, or digital equipment

respond to Patent Office Actions regarding drawings
Plus, once you've secured a patent with your drawings, you can also use them to market and promote your product to prospective manufacturers and customers.
The 5th edition is completely updated to reflect recent changes to patent law and the newest advances in technical drawing. It includes all necessary forms, plus step-by-step instructions for filling them out.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Excellent Text In Difficult Area:

The bokk is worth 10X the money if you are serious about patents.
Seller was professional.
Thanks.

Good For Beginner:

If you know absoultely nothing about making drawings, then this book will help because it starts with this is a pencil and this is paper. If you have basic mechanical drawing skills, then you already know 85% of what's in here. What you do need to know is the difference between typical mechanical drawings and patent drawings. For a beginner, it is probably pretty good. If you can draw, it could have been reduced to about 10 pages.
I did find the other book in the series regarding patents useful.... more info

Good Book:

This book is well written and up to date. I needed detailed information on shading and it was covered very well. If your new to patent drawings, this is covers the subject well.

A lot of information in one book:

I bought this book and Patent Pending in 24 Hours. The latter was a complete disappointment (read my review of it). This book however, was fairly detailed and answered quite a few questions for me. I am trained as a Graphic Designer. So I was very interested in doing the drawings myself on the computer. While the book focuses on traditional drawings for the most part, the information is still relevant for computer drawings. The book tells you what parts you need to draw and what to leave out. It also talks... more info

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