About IP DaVinci
IP DaVinci grew from more than 30 years of practical patent-drawing experience—and a simple observation: the people closest to patent work should have better ways to create, review, revise, and communicate figures.
What we bring together
Why IP DaVinci Exists
Patent attorneys, agents, paralegals, inventors, engineers, and researchers work around patent figures every day.
Yet even relatively simple figure changes often require another handoff—to a drafting professional, outside vendor, or someone else with the tools to make the revision.
After more than three decades working with patent drawings, one pattern kept appearing:
The people closest to the invention and the patent application often had the least direct control over the figures.
The Everyday Reality
A reference number moves, a callout changes, a component is added, or an inventor provides updated source material.
Instructions have to be prepared, communicated, interpreted, returned, and reviewed—even when the underlying revision is small.
If the result is not quite right, the same communication loop starts again.
Professional drafting remains valuable, but not every patent-figure task needs to become a drafting project.
The problem was not that patent professionals needed to become professional patent illustrators.
They needed practical patent-figure capability of their own.
Give people direct capability for the work they can reasonably handle—and keep professional drafting available for the work that requires it.
The Missing Capability
Most patent professionals do not need another profession. They need practical control over a recurring part of the work they already do.
Patent-figure capability means being able to understand, review, revise, create, and communicate around figures directly when the task is appropriate.
The practical ability to work directly with patent figures as part of the patent-development process.
What That Means
Understand figure structure, editable objects, reference elements, source material, and the practical standards that shape patent drawings.
Work with editable figure files so changes can be evaluated more directly and precisely.
Move elements, update labels, revise callouts, adjust layouts, and make other routine changes without turning every modification into another handoff.
Create common figure types using reusable tools, templates, and methods instead of beginning from an empty drawing every time.
Give attorneys, inventors, engineers, support teams, and drafting professionals a clearer visual language for communicating what needs to change.
Some patent-figure work is routine. Some is specialized. Some requires the judgment, efficiency, or execution of an experienced drafting professional.
The goal is not to eliminate professional drafting. It is to make the decision about when to use it more intentional.
The Model
Review, revise, annotate, communicate, and create appropriate figures internally.
Use editable figures to improve collaboration between patent professionals, inventors, engineers, and drafters.
Bring in professional drafting when the complexity or value of the work makes specialist execution the better choice.
Not to replace the patent-figure professional—but to remove unnecessary dependence on one for every patent-figure task.
From Drafting to a System
IP DaVinci grew out of more than 30 years of practical patent-drawing work.
Over time, the same techniques, decisions, figure types, revisions, and production problems appeared again and again. What looked like individual drafting tasks contained repeatable methods.
Patent drawings were created, revised, corrected, and prepared across thousands of practical situations—working from inventor sketches, photographs, screenshots, existing figures, technical documents, and other source material.
System diagrams, flowcharts, image tracing, GUI figures, graphs, tables, annotations, reference numbers, and revisions may look different from project to project, but much of the underlying work follows recognizable patterns.
Instead of treating every figure as a completely new drawing problem, those recurring patterns can be organized into practical methods that can be followed, taught, improved, and repeated.
Skills alone are not enough. Templates alone are not enough. Training alone is not enough. The pieces become more useful when they work together as a practical patent-figure environment.
The Result
IP DaVinci organizes practical patent-figure capability around the elements people need to do the work consistently.
The practical drawing skills needed to work efficiently with editable patent figures.
Reusable templates, stencils, components, and drawing resources that reduce repetitive setup.
Repeatable methods for common patent-figure types, revisions, and production tasks.
Practical techniques for doing the work faster, more consistently, and with greater control.
Turn decades of practical patent-drawing knowledge into capability that other people can actually use.
What We Believe
IP DaVinci is built around a simple idea: give people more practical control over the visual part of patent work.
That does not mean everyone should do everything. It means the people closest to the invention and the patent application should have useful capability of their own.
Capability
Attorneys, agents, paralegals, inventors, engineers, researchers, and support professionals should not need a specialist for every appropriate review, revision, annotation, or figure-development task.
Editability
Editable figures preserve control. They make revisions, collaboration, reuse, and future development easier than workflows built around static outputs alone.
Standardization
Common figure types and recurring production tasks should not require reinventing the process every time. Tools, templates, and workflows can make good methods easier to repeat.
Collaboration
Better tools and editable figures can shorten the distance between inventors, engineers, patent professionals, support teams, and professional drafters.
Professional Judgment
Internal capability should handle work where it makes practical sense. Experienced drafting professionals should remain available when complexity, efficiency, or specialized execution makes them the better choice.
The goal is not maximum outsourcing or maximum self-sufficiency.
It is the right capability, in the right hands, for the right work.
What IP DaVinci Provides
IP DaVinci brings training, tools, workflows, and professional support into one connected approach.
Individuals can develop capability for their own work. Organizations can build that capability across teams. And professional drafting remains available when the work calls for it.
Core System
The complete framework for developing practical patent-figure capability using Essential Visio Skills, Toolkits, Workflows, and Productivity Methods.
Explore the SystemWorking Tools
Editable templates, stencils, reusable components, and practical drawing resources designed to make common patent-figure work faster and more consistent.
Training & Enablement
Structured learning, practical demonstrations, live training, and patent-figure exercises help individuals and teams move from understanding the methods to applying them in real work.
Professional Support
Professional patent-figure support for work that is complex, specialized, time-sensitive, or simply better handled by an experienced drafting professional.
Explore StudioHow It Fits Together
Learn how the work is done, use the tools to do it, and bring in professional support when the work goes beyond what you want to handle yourself.
Who We Serve
The people working with patent figures are not all in the same role—or even inside the same organization.
IP DaVinci supports individuals and organizations across the patent-development process, adapting the same core capability to different working environments.
Patent Law Firms
Give attorneys, patent agents, paralegals, and support professionals practical tools and workflows for reviewing, revising, communicating, and creating appropriate patent figures directly.
For Patent Law FirmsCorporations & R&D Teams
Help IP teams, engineers, inventors, and R&D professionals develop clearer technical source material, communicate inventions visually, and collaborate more effectively around patent figures.
For Corporations & R&DUniversities & Technology Transfer
Give technology-transfer teams, faculty inventors, researchers, students, and patent support professionals practical ways to develop and communicate the visual side of university inventions.
For UniversitiesIP & Innovation Associations
Associations can offer patent-figure training and resources as educational programming, an ongoing member benefit, or part of a broader partnership.
For AssociationsIndividual Professionals
Patent attorneys, agents, paralegals, inventors, engineers, researchers, and other professionals can learn the system and use its tools independently, without requiring an organization-wide program.
Explore Individual AccessWhen more people can understand and work with patent figures, the visual side of the patent process becomes easier to communicate, revise, and move forward.
Built Around the Work
IP DaVinci is not general-purpose drawing or software training with patent examples added afterward.
The system starts with the actual work surrounding patent figures—how they are created, revised, organized, communicated, and prepared—and builds the tools and methods around those tasks.
The question is not:
Real Figure Work
Different inventions produce different figures, but many of the underlying production problems repeat.
Organize technical relationships, processes, components, and information flows into clear editable figures.
Work from photographs, screenshots, sketches, PDFs, existing drawings, and other technical source material.
Develop clear representations of interfaces, screens, states, and other software-related visual material.
Convert technical information into structured, consistent, and editable patent-figure formats.
Add, organize, revise, and maintain the visual information that connects figures to the patent application.
Modify layouts, components, labels, callouts, and other figure elements while preserving editability for the next revision.
The Practical Method
Understand what the figure needs to communicate and what the work requires.
Use the Visio features and reusable resources that matter for that specific work.
Turn individual techniques into a practical sequence that can be used again.
Use the skill independently when the next appropriate figure or revision appears.
Learn features, commands, and functions.
Learn how to use the right features, tools, and workflows to accomplish patent-figure work.
The software is a tool. The real subject is the patent-figure work.
About the Founder
IP DaVinci was founded by Mike Oljaca after more than 30 years working with patent drawings and the people responsible for developing them.
The system grew from a practical question: how much of the knowledge used every day in professional patent drafting could be organized so other patent professionals could use it themselves?
Mike Oljaca
For more than three decades, Mike has worked directly with patent drawings—creating figures, interpreting technical source material, responding to revisions, and helping turn inventions into clear visual representations for patent applications.
That work provided a close view of both sides of the patent-figure process: the specialized drafting work itself and the communication that takes place between inventors, attorneys, patent agents, support professionals, and drafters.
Over time, a recurring gap became difficult to ignore. Patent professionals depended heavily on figures, but many had never been given a practical system for working with those figures directly.
IP DaVinci grew from the effort to close that gap—not by replacing professional patent drafting, but by making more of its practical knowledge accessible, teachable, and usable.
Learning the practical realities of creating, revising, and managing patent figures.
Seeing where the same production problems, communication loops, and techniques appeared repeatedly.
Turning specialist knowledge into methods that can be taught and repeated.
A system for putting practical patent-figure capability into more hands.
“The goal isn't to turn everyone into a patent illustrator. It's to give people enough capability to work directly with patent figures when it makes sense.”
Mike Oljaca Founder, IP DaVinci®
The Work Now
Today, the focus of IP DaVinci is broader than producing individual drawings.
It is about helping patent professionals, inventors, engineers, researchers, and organizations develop the skills, tools, workflows, and support structure to work with patent figures more effectively themselves.
The experience began with drawing patent figures. IP DaVinci exists to make the knowledge behind that work more useful to everyone involved in the patent process.
How We Work With Organizations
Patent-figure capability does not need to be introduced everywhere at once.
We start by understanding how figures currently move through your organization, where practical capability would help, and which people should have it.
For one team, the priority may be making routine figure revisions internally. For another, it may be improving inventor-to-counsel collaboration, standardizing drawing workflows, or giving members access to practical education.
The program should follow the need—not the other way around.
A Practical Path
We look at how patent figures are currently created, reviewed, revised, and exchanged—and which people participate in that process.
Not every drawing task belongs internally. We identify the recurring work where greater internal capability, better tools, or clearer workflows could provide practical value.
The appropriate people receive access to the relevant training, tools, templates, workflows, and practical instruction needed for their work.
Capability becomes useful when people apply it to actual figures, revisions, inventor materials, and recurring production tasks—not when it remains isolated inside a training course.
Training and tools do not eliminate the need for specialist help. IP DaVinci Studio remains available for complex, specialized, or time-sensitive figure work.
A successful starting point can extend to additional people, teams, offices, departments, clients, or members when there is a practical reason to do so.
Different Starting Points
Give selected attorneys, agents, paralegals, engineers, researchers, or support professionals direct access to the system.
Introduce common tools and workflows across a practice group, IP team, research group, or technology-transfer function.
Standardize access, training, resources, and support across a larger group when the need extends beyond one team.
Firms and associations can also explore programs that make patent-figure education available to clients, members, or other professional communities.
Routine revisions, appropriate figure creation, annotations, source-material preparation, review, and other work your team is equipped to handle.
Complex, specialized, high-volume, time-sensitive, or unfamiliar work where professional drafting remains the more practical choice.
Start a Conversation
Tell us how your organization handles patent figures today. We can discuss where additional capability could be useful and what an appropriate starting point might look like.
Law firms · Corporations · Universities · Associations
Explore IP DaVinci
Learn the system, build capability for yourself or your organization, or bring in professional patent-figure support.
Each path is part of the same approach: making patent-figure work easier to understand, manage, revise, and move forward.
Patent Figure System
Explore the complete IP DaVinci Patent Figure System™: Essential Visio Skills, Toolkits, Workflows, and Productivity Methods.
Organizational Capability
Explore approaches designed for legal practices, corporate innovation teams, universities, and professional communities.
For Individuals
Access IP DaVinci as an individual patent attorney, agent, paralegal, inventor, engineer, researcher, or other professional.
IP DaVinci Studio
Use Studio when the work is complex, specialized, time-sensitive, or simply better handled by a professional patent-drawing team.
Not Sure Where to Start?
Whether you need individual capability, an organizational approach, or professional patent-figure support, we can help identify the most practical starting point.