Mark Rhodes Patent Illustrator

This drawing is an exhibit for litigation of patent infringement.  The design is a garage door spring tensioning device.

Delivering the Goods And now a word about delivery.  Now that your fishing lure has been illustrated (bodaciously) and the application is written, how do we get these to the PTO?  Naturally, the drawing must be printed out and delivered by FedEx or snail mail and arrive on time to the attorney's office for inclusion in the package to the PTO.  For this, there is no better output to paper than WildTools LaserPrint. Even after I owned WildTools for a couple years, I never bothered with LaserPrint, because things looked so good being printed directly out of PowerCADD.  Then I began to be bothered by minor flaws in the image most of which PowerCADD has corrected in its 2000 version with the Round Pen selection in the Page Setup Dialog.  However, because PowerCADD still uses QuickDraw to print, these small errors cannot be fully done away with.  LaserPrint, however, uses PostScript to print, and the resulting difference in quality is palpable.  When I first really did the comparison test, I was blown away.  The LaserPrint drawings were PERFECT with nothing wanting.  I have been using it ever since to print hard copies of drawings for clients who require them. But now, enter the Internet, and there's no turning back.  A revolution in delivery of information has already occurred, and Engineered Software has not missed a beat.  Suddenly, I can deliver drawings to clients in PDF format viewable AND printable with Acrobat Reader.  Further, the US Patent Office is encouraging and will someday soon require electronic filing of patent applications.  I would have liked their vehicle of choice to be Adobe's PDF, but alas, they have settled on TIFF, a bit-map image, that up until PowerCADD 2000 was not possible to produce with any quality.  Now, PowerCADD's Export menu item allows several choices, and the TIFF output is spectacular.  I save it at 600 dpi Black and White, and this has become my newest method of choice in getting drawings to clients they can use to file electronically; and it will only get more so. Mark Rhodes

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