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The patents drawings are a necessary part of your patent application, they add value to your patent request. Moreover, provide insight information which is tough to be described in a few lines and in some countries/states patent flow.

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Numbering of Sheets of Drawings and Views

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The sheets of drawings should be numbered in consecutive Arabic numerals, starting with 1, within the sight. These numbers, if present, must be placed in the middle of the top of the sheet but not in the margin. The numbers can be placed on the right-hand side if the drawing extends too close to the middle of the top edge of the usable surface. The drawing sheet numbering must be clear and larger than the numbers used as reference characters to avoid confusion. The number of each sheet should be shown by two Arabic numerals placed on either side of an oblique line, with the first being the sheet number and the second being the total number of sheets of drawings, with no other marking.

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Drawing Requirements While Applying New Application

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Information on drawing requirements is based substantially on 37 CFR § 1.84. Black and white drawings are normally required. India ink, or its equivalent that secures black solid lines, must be used for drawings. For nonprovisional utility applications, the “sheets” of drawings should be contained in an electronic document in PDF format filed via EFS-Web

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Special Requirements for Patent Drawings

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Drawings shall be executed in durable, black, sufficiently dense, and dark, uniformly thick, and well-defined, lines and strokes without colorings. Cross-sections shall be indicated by oblique hatching which should not impede the clear reading of the reference signs and leading lines. The scale of the drawings and the distinctness of their graphical execution shall be

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Words in Drawings

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The drawings shall not contain text matter, except a single word or words, when absolutely indispensable, such as “water,” “steam,” “open,” “closed,” “section on AB,” and, in the case of electric circuits and block schematic or flow sheet diagrams, a few short catchwords indispensable for understanding. Any words used shall be so placed that, if

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