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Can You Use Color Drawings or Photographs in Utility Patent Applications?

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Can you file the utility patent application with the color drawings or photographs? 113, the Applicant for a patent must “furnish a drawing where necessary for the understanding of the subject matter to be patented”. Typically, the drawings in a utility patent application are submitted in black and white.

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What is intellectual property (IP)?

Patent Trademark Blog

Depending upon whether your idea relates to appearance or function, you can file either a design patent application or utility patent application. Here’s a helpful article on filing a utility patent application and another one filing a design patent application.

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Fish Principals Author Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal Article, “Strategic IP Considerations of Batteries and Energy Storage Solutions”

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PDF copy available. But the lithium-ion battery has now expanded far beyond the consumer electronics industry, sparking a gold rush of research and development aimed at producing lower-cost, higher-performance batteries that can be used in a wider range of applications.