Course: PDS-U04 – Patent Drawing School (Visio Edition) – FREE PREVIEW

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Welcome to Patent Drawing School – Visio Edition

This course provides a structured, professional training program for creating, editing, and reviewing utility patent drawings using Microsoft Visio. You’ll learn practical skills you can use immediately—whether you’re preparing an invention disclosure, documenting research, or creating drawings for a patent filing.

No Visio or design experience required. You are not expected to be an artist. You are not expected to “figure things out” on your own.

Everything in this course is taught step by step, using real patent-drawing scenarios and practical examples.

In this training, you will learn:

The difference between utility and design drawings, what formal vs. informal figures mean, and the basic techniques used in real patent drawings.
The key USPTO and international rules for sheets, lines, reference numbers, text size, and how figures should be organized.
The essential parts of Microsoft Visio needed for patent drawings — we skip the unnecessary features and focus only on what you’ll actually use.
How to create flowcharts, system diagrams, tables, graphs, GUI screens, and traced images directly in Visio.
How to add reference numbers, lead lines, figure numbers, and other annotations quickly using custom toolkit stencils.
How to capture ideas fast, update existing drawings, and prepare figures suitable for class projects, research, industry work, or patent filings.

This course teaches you the drawing skills. Your instructor will guide you through the assignments, explain how everything fits into your program, and help you apply these skills to your projects or research.

The exact skills you develop depend on your Learning Path, but every path is designed to deliver immediate, real-world value.

⭐ Certification Paths Available in This Course

In Module 5, you will have the opportunity to complete one or more Certification Final Projects. Each certification corresponds to a different level of skill and a different learning path.
Certifications are completed based on your Learning Path and your instructor’s requirements.

The available certifications are:

🔵 Fundamentals Certification

Demonstrates core Visio skills:
- selecting, moving, resizing objects
- alignment, spacing, layout
- simple labeling and cleanup
- basic figure adjustments and modifications

🟢 Diagram-Type Patent Figure Drawing Certification (Level 1 & Level 2)

Demonstrates the ability to create:
- flowcharts
- system/process diagrams
- diagram-type patent figures with correct layout, connectors, labels

Level 2 includes more complex diagrams.

🟣 Full Utility Patent Drawing Certification (Level 1 & Level 2)

Demonstrates full drafting capability, including:
- flowcharts & system diagrams
- image tracing
- tables & graphs
- GUI drawings
- full multi-figure patent drawing sets

Level 2 includes more complex figures.

🔴 Drawing Quality Reviewer Certification

Designed for learners who review drawings rather than create them.
You will inspect a full drawing set and identify format errors, numbering issues, rule violations, and inconsistencies.

Your instructor will advise which certification(s) apply to your program.
If you are self-studying, you may choose any path that aligns with your goals.

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  🎛️ Customize Your Learning Experience
  
  This course can reorganize itself based on your goals.
  By selecting a Learning Path, the course will highlight only the modules and certification options that match the skills you want to develop.
  
  You may choose from four paths:
  
  Path 1 — Fundamentals Only
  Core Visio skills for reviewing, annotating, and making quick adjustments to existing drawings — without creating figures from scratch.
  
  Path 2 — Diagram-Type Patent Figure Drawing Skills
  Focuses on flowcharts and system/process diagrams used to explain how inventions work. Ideal for invention disclosures, R&D communication, and many software-, system-, and AI-related patent applications.
  
  Path 3 — Full Utility Patent Drawing Skills
  Covers the complete utility patent drafting workflow, including diagrams, image tracing, tables, graphs, GUI figures, electrical diagrams, and full multi-figure drawing sets.
  
  Path 4 — Drawing Quality Reviewer
  Designed for learners who review and inspect drawings rather than create them, with emphasis on USPTO compliance, formatting accuracy, and quality control.
  
  Your Learning Path controls which certification projects appear in Module 5.
  
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  1.1 Understanding Utility Patent Drawings
  
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  1.2 Utility Patent Drawing Standards
  
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  2.9 Working with Images
  
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  3.1 Annotation
  
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