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Leveque Intellectual Property Law, P.C. is Seeking a Patent / Intellectual Property Attorney

IP Watchdog

Ideal candidates will have at least 10 years of recent experience in all aspects of utility and design patent drafting and prosecution practice; managing international patent prosecution of patent portfolios; analyzing and summarizing patent searches, drafting legal opinions, including patentability, validity, infringement and freedom-to-operate.

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How to review a draft patent application and provide useful comments

Patent Trademark Blog

Unlike a utility patent, the drawings in a design patent will define the scope of your claim. That means that utility patent drawings have flexibility to show details that may or may not end up in the claims, but the details in design patent drawings will affect the scope of your IP rights.