Patent-Figure Capability for Individuals

Build practical patent-figure skills you can use yourself.

Learn how to create, review, revise, and communicate patent figures more effectively in Microsoft Visio—with practical instruction, specialized tools, proven workflows, and ongoing support.

Patent figure example representing practical patent drawing work for individual professionals

Built for people involved in patent work

Patent Attorneys Patent Agents Paralegals Inventors Engineers & Researchers

The Patent-Figure Capability Gap

You work with patent figures. But you may never have been taught how to work on them.

Patent professionals routinely review, discuss, mark up, revise, and communicate about drawings.

Yet the practical skills for working directly with those figures are rarely part of legal, technical, or professional training.

The Disconnect

Responsibility for the figures does not always come with the tools to work on them.

01

You review drawings

You need to understand what a figure communicates, identify problems, and determine what should change.

02

You request revisions

Even a small change may require markups, explanations, emails, and another drafting cycle.

03

You receive imperfect source material

Inventors and clients may provide sketches, screenshots, photographs, CAD exports, PDFs, or existing drawings that still need work.

04

You need to communicate visually

Sometimes changing the figure directly is faster and clearer than describing the change in words.

Even Small Changes Create Work

A simple revision can become an unnecessary handoff.

Notice Identify the change
Explain Mark it up
Send Hand it off
Wait Receive the revision
Review Check it again

What Changes With Capability

You can decide what should be handled directly—and what should still be delegated.

Review

Understand the figure more directly.

Work with the drawing as an editable technical document rather than only as a finished image.

Revise

Make practical changes yourself.

Handle appropriate corrections, annotations, reference characters, layout changes, and other routine revisions directly.

Create

Develop appropriate figures when it makes sense.

Build diagrams, flowcharts, block diagrams, traced figures, and other practical patent figure types using a structured workflow.

Collaborate

Communicate visually with others.

Work more effectively with inventors, attorneys, engineers, clients, and professional drafting resources by communicating through the figure itself.

Capability, Not Replacement

The goal is not to turn every patent professional into a professional illustrator.

Some figure work is straightforward. Some requires significant drawing experience, specialized techniques, or more time than you should spend handling it yourself.

Individual Access gives you practical capability so you can work directly with patent figures when it makes sense—and recognize when professional drafting is the better choice.

A More Flexible Way to Work
Understand Know what you are looking at
Work Directly Handle appropriate figure work
Escalate Use professional drafting when needed
Capability More control over the figure workflow
The Idea

You do not need to do every patent drawing yourself. You should be able to work with patent figures when the work in front of you calls for it.

Individual Access closes that gap

Get the training, tools, and workflows for working directly with patent figures.

What You Get

More than training. A practical system for working with patent figures.

Individual Access gives you the same core IP DaVinci Patent Figure System™ in a format designed for one person.

Learn the essential skills, use purpose-built tools, follow repeatable workflows, and develop practical methods you can apply directly to real patent work.

The Patent Figure System™

Four parts work together.

01 Skills

Essential Visio Skills

Learn the Visio techniques that matter for patent figures without spending time learning features that have little relevance to patent work.

Drawing Editing Layers Alignment Formatting
02 Tools

Patent Figure Toolkits

Start from reusable patent-focused resources instead of rebuilding common drawing elements and configurations every time you begin a figure.

Templates Stencils Shapes Standards Resources
03 Process

Patent Figure Workflows

Follow repeatable methods for common figure tasks rather than figuring out a drawing process from scratch each time.

Tracing Revising Creating Formalizing Reviewing
04 Method

Productivity Methods

Learn practical ways to organize and execute figure work more efficiently, consistently, and with greater control.

Structure Consistency Reuse Speed Control

How It Comes Together

Learn the skill. Use the tool. Follow the workflow.

Learn Understand the technique

See how the drawing task works and why the method is useful.

Apply Use the working tools

Start with templates, stencils, and resources designed for patent-figure work.

Repeat Follow the workflow

Use a consistent process instead of reinventing the method for every figure.

Work Apply it to real patent figures

Build practical capability that carries into the work you actually do.

Your Learning Environment

Learn at your own pace and return when the work requires it.

Individual Access includes online learning that organizes the System into practical lessons, demonstrations, methods, and workflows.

You do not need to memorize everything before you begin. Learn the fundamentals, practice the methods, and return to specific material when a real figure task makes it relevant.

Learning + Working Resources

The value continues after the lesson ends.

01

Learn the method

Use structured lessons and demonstrations to understand how patent-figure tasks are performed.

02

Practice the workflow

Apply the techniques yourself so the process becomes usable rather than merely familiar.

03

Use the Toolkit

Bring the templates, stencils, and other working resources into your own figure workflow.

04

Return when needed

Revisit relevant lessons and workflows when a particular patent-figure task appears in your work.

Built Around Real Tasks

Learn in the context of the work you actually encounter.

01 Review an existing figure
02 Make a routine revision
03 Trace source material
04 Create a technical diagram
05 Work with reference characters
06 Improve figure consistency
07 Prepare clearer inventor material
08 Communicate revisions visually
Individual Access

One person. One practical patent-figure system. The skills, tools, workflows, and methods stay connected instead of being learned in isolation.

What can you do with it?

Individual Access is built around practical patent-figure capabilities.

What You Learn to Do

Build practical capability around the patent figures you actually work with.

The goal is not simply to learn Visio. It is to use Visio effectively for patent-figure work.

Individual Access connects drawing skills to the practical tasks that appear during invention disclosure, patent preparation, prosecution, revision, and collaboration.

Six Core Capabilities

From understanding an existing figure to developing one yourself.

01 Review

Review figures more effectively.

Examine existing patent figures with a better understanding of how the drawing is constructed, organized, and prepared for revision.

Inspect figure structure Check consistency Identify revisions Review reference characters
02 Revise

Make practical revisions directly.

Modify appropriate figure elements yourself instead of turning every correction or adjustment into another drafting handoff.

Move elements Change labels Adjust callouts Correct layouts
03 Create

Create practical patent figures.

Develop common technical figure types using structured drawing methods, reusable resources, and patent-focused workflows.

Flowcharts Block diagrams System diagrams Technical schematics
04 Trace

Turn source material into editable line work.

Use a repeatable tracing workflow to develop clean vector-based figures from visual source material that cannot simply be used as-is.

Photographs Sketches Screenshots PDFs & source images
05 Formalize

Turn working material into clearer figures.

Take rough technical material and organize it into more consistent, readable, and usable patent-figure form.

Clean geometry Organize layouts Standardize elements Improve consistency
06 Collaborate

Communicate through the figure itself.

Use editable figures to communicate technical concepts and revisions more clearly with the people involved in preparing the application.

Inventors Attorneys & agents Engineers Drafting professionals

Work With What You Receive

Patent-figure work rarely begins with a perfect drawing.

Technical information arrives in many forms. Individual Access teaches practical ways to move from that source material toward figures that are easier to edit, review, and develop.

Source Material

Sketch Photo Screenshot PDF CAD export Existing figure
IP DaVinci Workflow Interpret · Trace · Build · Organize
Result Editable patent figure

Structured for continued review, revision, and collaboration.

Routine Work Becomes More Direct

Not every change needs another round trip.

Without Direct Capability

01 Identify the change
02 Explain or mark it up
03 Send it to someone else
04 Wait for the revision
05 Review it again
Instead

With Direct Capability

01 Make the appropriate change directly.

When the work is within your capability, edit the figure and continue with the matter.

You Choose the Level

Capability does not mean you have to do everything yourself.

Review Understand and evaluate.

Some people primarily need enough capability to review drawings and communicate changes more effectively.

Revise Handle practical changes.

Others want to make routine revisions and corrections without unnecessary handoffs.

Create Develop figures directly.

Some users will go further and create appropriate patent figures themselves from technical material.

Escalate Know when to delegate.

Complex, specialized, or time-consuming work can still move to professional drafting.

Capability in Practice

The figure becomes something you can work with—not just something you receive.

Before

“Please move this callout and send the figure back.”

With Capability

Open the editable figure, make the change, and continue working.

Before

“Can someone turn this inventor sketch into something usable?”

With Capability

Use the sketch as source material and begin developing the figure directly.

Before

“I know what this diagram needs to show, but I cannot easily change it.”

With Capability

Work directly with the figure while developing the technical and legal presentation.

Practical Capability

Learn enough to work directly when it makes sense, collaborate more effectively when others are involved, and delegate when professional drafting is the better choice.

How do you build the capability?

Learn progressively, practice the workflows, and apply them to real figure work.

How You Learn

Learn by working with patent figures.

You do not need to master every Visio feature before you can begin doing useful work.

IP DaVinci organizes learning around the skills, tools, and workflows that matter for patent figures, so you can learn progressively and apply what you learn as your work requires it.

The Learning Model

Learn enough to begin. Build capability through use.

01
Learn Understand the method.

Learn the essential concept and the patent-figure task it helps you accomplish.

02
Watch See how it is done.

Follow practical demonstrations that show the technique inside the actual drawing environment.

03
Practice Do the work yourself.

Repeat the technique so the workflow becomes something you can actually use.

04
Apply Bring it into real work.

Use the skill, Toolkit, and workflow when similar figure tasks appear in your matters.

05
Return Come back when you need it.

Revisit the relevant lesson or workflow instead of relying on memory alone.

Focused Learning

Learn the Visio skills that matter for patent work.

Visio is a broad application. You do not need to learn every feature in order to work effectively with patent figures.

IP DaVinci focuses on the drawing techniques, commands, organization methods, and productivity practices that support patent-figure work.

Build Progressively

Start with the foundation. Add capability as you go.

01

Foundation

Essential Visio Skills

Build confidence with the drawing environment, objects, connectors, formatting, alignment, layers, and other essential techniques.

02

Patent Work

Patent-Focused Methods

Connect those drawing skills to the requirements, conventions, and practical realities of working with patent figures.

03

Workflows

Repeatable Figure Processes

Learn structured methods for tasks such as tracing, revising, creating, formalizing, and organizing figures.

04

Application

Real Figure Work

Bring the methods into your own work and continue building capability through practical use.

Self-Paced Access

Learn around your work—not the other way around.

Start

Begin with the fundamentals.

Establish the core skills and working methods that make later workflows easier to understand.

Continue

Move at your own pace.

Progress through the material according to your experience, workload, and the capabilities you want to develop.

Revisit

Return to specific workflows.

When a tracing, revision, diagram, or other task appears, return to the relevant material and refresh the process.

Training Becomes a Working Reference

You do not have to remember every step.

A workflow you learn today may not appear in your work again for several weeks or months.

Instead of trying to memorize every technique, return to the relevant lesson, review the process, open the appropriate Toolkit resources, and continue with the figure in front of you.

Real Task A figure problem appears
Reference Return to the workflow
Toolkit Open the working resources
Apply Continue with the figure
The Difference
Not Just Watch a software course.
Instead Build a capability you can use.
Learn for the Work

The objective is not to finish lessons. The objective is to become more capable when a patent figure is in front of you.

Want to build the foundation faster?

Patent Figure Bootstrap™ brings the core methods together in a focused live training experience.

Patent Figure Bootstrap™

Build the foundation in one focused live session.

Patent Figure Bootstrap™ is a practical four-hour live training experience designed to get you working with the System quickly.

Instead of spending weeks trying to assemble the fundamentals on your own, work through the essential skills, tools, and workflows in a structured session—and then continue developing through Individual Access.

Live Training

4 Hours

A practical introduction to working directly with patent figures.

The Bootstrap brings the essential pieces together in one guided experience so you can understand how the System works as a whole—not as a collection of unrelated Visio techniques.

The objective Leave knowing how to begin.

The Four-Hour Foundation

Move from the drawing environment to practical patent-figure work.

01 Foundation

Get comfortable in the drawing environment.

Establish the essential Visio concepts and drawing techniques you need before working through patent-focused workflows.

  • Drawing environment
  • Shapes and lines
  • Selection and editing
  • Alignment and positioning
02 Structure

Learn how patent figures are built and organized.

Move beyond general Visio operation and begin applying the drawing environment specifically to patent-figure work.

  • Figure organization
  • Reference characters
  • Formatting consistency
  • Reusable drawing elements
03 Workflow

Work through practical figure methods.

See how individual drawing skills become repeatable workflows for common patent-figure tasks.

  • Reviewing figures
  • Making revisions
  • Tracing source material
  • Creating technical diagrams
04 Application

Put the pieces together.

Connect the skills, Toolkit resources, and workflows so you know how to continue applying the System after the live session ends.

  • Practical application
  • Workflow selection
  • Toolkit use
  • Next-step learning

Built for Participation

This is not four hours of watching someone else use Visio.

See Watch the method.

See the technique demonstrated clearly before working through it yourself.

Do Follow along.

Use the same tools and methods in your own drawing environment.

Understand Connect the pieces.

Understand how the individual techniques fit into complete patent-figure workflows.

Continue Keep building afterward.

Use Individual Access to revisit the foundation and develop additional capabilities over time.

Bootstrap + Individual Access

The live session gets you started. The System stays with you.

Start Patent Figure Bootstrap™
01

Focused live instruction

02

Guided practice

03

Essential foundation

04

System orientation

Continue Individual Access
01

Self-paced learning

02

Patent Figure Toolkit™

03

Workflow reference

04

Continued capability building

Why Start Live?

Some things are easier when you can see the whole workflow come together.

01

Get oriented faster.

Understand how Visio, the Toolkit, and the IP DaVinci workflows fit together before exploring them independently.

02

Avoid early frustration.

Establish the core working methods before small software questions become unnecessary obstacles.

03

See the reasoning.

Learn not only which command to use, but why a particular approach works well for patent figures.

04

Know what to learn next.

Leave with enough context to navigate the broader System according to the figure work you actually encounter.

Designed for Different Starting Points

You do not need a drafting background.

New to Visio Start with the essentials.

Build a useful foundation without trying to learn the entire application first.

Familiar with Visio Make it patent-specific.

Connect existing software familiarity to patent-focused tools and workflows.

Patent Professional Add drawing capability.

Connect your existing patent knowledge to practical ways of working directly with figures.

Technical Professional Communicate visually.

Learn practical methods for turning technical ideas and source material into clearer figures.

After the Bootstrap

The four hours are the beginning—not the finish line.

Day 1 Build the foundation

Complete the live Bootstrap experience.

Next Practice the methods

Repeat the essential workflows independently.

Ongoing Expand your capability

Continue through the System as new needs arise.

Real Work Apply what you know

Use the System when patent figures appear in your work.

Four Focused Hours

Build the foundation live. Keep the tools, workflows, and learning environment available as your patent-figure capability grows.

Beyond the Bootstrap

Individual Access gives you the resources to keep developing after the live session ends.

Patent Figure Toolkit™

Start with working resources instead of starting from scratch.

The Patent Figure Toolkit™ gives you reusable drawing resources built specifically for patent-figure work.

Templates, stencils, drawing elements, and supporting resources help you work more consistently while reducing repetitive setup and rebuilding.

Where the Toolkit Fits
Learn Understand the method
Toolkit Open the working resources
Workflow Follow the process
Figure Apply it to the work

Working Resources

Reusable building blocks for patent-figure work.

01

Templates

Begin from a prepared drawing environment.

Use patent-focused starting files instead of rebuilding common page and drawing settings every time you begin new work.

02

Stencils

Keep reusable drawing elements close at hand.

Access organized collections of useful elements that can be placed into drawings and adapted to the figure in front of you.

03

Drawing Elements

Reuse instead of redraw.

Start with prepared shapes and drawing components for recurring patent-figure needs, then modify them for the particular invention.

04

Reference

Keep useful guidance with the work.

Use supporting resources alongside the drawing environment when you need to refresh a method, convention, or workflow.

A Better Starting Point

A blank Visio page should not be the beginning of every figure.

Without a Toolkit Rebuild the environment.
01

Set up the drawing

02

Find or recreate elements

03

Re-establish formatting

04

Remember the process

05

Then begin the actual figure

With the Toolkit Start closer to the work.
01

Open the appropriate resource

02

Use prepared elements

03

Adapt them to the invention

04

Follow the relevant workflow

05

Focus on the figure itself

Reusable by Design

Build once. Adapt repeatedly.

Patent figures often contain recurring visual structures, conventions, and drawing elements. Recreating all of them for every matter adds unnecessary work.

The Toolkit gives you reusable starting material while keeping the resulting drawing editable. You can modify the elements for the invention rather than treating them as fixed artwork.

Select Choose a starting element
Adapt Modify it for the invention
Reuse Keep useful work available

Editable by Design

The Toolkit gives you building blocks—not finished pictures.

The value of a reusable drawing resource is not that every figure looks the same.

It is that you can begin with a useful structure and then change the geometry, arrangement, labeling, line work, and other details to match the invention you are documenting.

Start prepared Stay editable.

Tools + Methods

A resource becomes more useful when you know how to use it.

Toolkit

The working resources.

Templates, stencils, drawing elements, and supporting material give you practical things to work with.

Workflows

The method for using them.

Structured processes show you how the tools fit into reviewing, revising, tracing, creating, and organizing patent figures.

Capability

A repeatable way to work.

Instead of collecting disconnected files and techniques, use resources and methods together as part of one working system.

Put It to Work

Use the Toolkit across different figure tasks.

Review

Work with existing figures.

Use the drawing environment and supporting resources when examining or preparing changes to existing figure sets.

Revise

Make controlled changes.

Use editable elements and established methods to change labels, geometry, arrangement, or other figure details.

Trace

Formalize source material.

Combine Toolkit resources with tracing workflows when converting source material into cleaner, editable line work.

Create

Develop new figures.

Begin with reusable building blocks when creating diagrams and other figures from technical information.

Beyond the Included Toolkit

Your own work can become reusable too.

As you work with patent figures, you can preserve useful elements and structures from your own work and develop a more efficient personal drawing environment.

The goal is not simply to use a fixed library. It is to develop better working habits around reusable, editable drawing resources.

IP DaVinci Included resources
Your Work Useful elements you develop
Over Time A stronger working environment
Start Ahead

Do not spend your time rebuilding what can already be prepared, reusable, and editable. Put that time into the figure itself.

Tools are only part of the System

The next step is knowing which process to use when a particular patent-figure task appears.

Patent Figure Workflows

Know what to do when a patent-figure task appears.

Patent Figure Workflows turn individual drawing skills and Toolkit resources into repeatable ways of working.

Instead of deciding from scratch how to approach every revision, source image, diagram, or figure set, begin with a structured process designed around the task in front of you.

From Problem to Process
01 Identify the task
02 Select the workflow
03 Use the right tools
04 Complete the figure work

Common Figure Tasks

Start with what needs to happen to the figure.

01

Review

Understand what is already there.

Examine an existing figure or figure set, identify what needs attention, and determine whether the work can be handled directly or requires broader drafting support.

Inspect Identify Decide
02

Revise

Change an existing editable figure.

Make controlled changes to reference characters, geometry, line work, arrangement, annotations, or other elements without rebuilding the entire figure.

Open Modify Check
03

Trace

Turn source material into editable line work.

Use photographs, screenshots, sketches, PDFs, CAD output, and other visual references as the basis for cleaner vector drawing.

Import Trace Formalize
04

Create

Build a new technical figure.

Develop flowcharts, block diagrams, system diagrams, process figures, and other technical illustrations from invention information.

Understand Structure Draw
05

Formalize

Bring rough technical material into a consistent figure.

Take inventor sketches, working diagrams, or other preliminary material and develop a cleaner, more organized visual representation for patent work.

Interpret Organize Refine
06

Collaborate

Use figures as part of the technical conversation.

Work more directly with inventors, attorneys, engineers, drafting professionals, or other contributors when figure changes and technical clarification are needed.

Share Clarify Revise

Workflow Example

Image Tracing Workflow™

A source image becomes easier to work with when the process is broken into deliberate steps.

01
Prepare Set No Fill

Keep newly created closed shapes transparent so the reference image remains visible while you trace.

02
Reference Lock the source image

Place the source material on its own layer and keep it fixed while the new drawing is developed above it.

03
Trace Build the line work

Trace the important geometry using editable vector lines and shapes rather than treating the original image as the final figure.

04
Finalize Clean the drawing

Remove the reference dependency and finish the figure as clean, editable line work.

Repeatable by Design

A workflow is more than a list of instructions.

A useful workflow gives you a recognizable starting point, an order of operations, and a practical way to move from source material or an existing figure toward the desired result.

Once the process becomes familiar, you spend less time deciding how to begin and more time working on the technical content of the figure.

01 Recognizable starting point
02 Defined sequence
03 Appropriate tools
04 Expected result

The System Working Together

Skills, tools, and workflows solve different parts of the problem.

Skills Know how to use the drawing environment.
Toolkit Have useful resources ready.
Workflow Know which process to follow.
Capability Handle the task with a repeatable method.

Start with the Problem

Different figure problems call for different workflows.

“I received figures that need changes.”
Start with Review + Revise
“I have a photograph or screenshot.”
Start with Image Tracing
“I have an inventor sketch.”
Start with Formalize
“I need a new flowchart or block diagram.”
Start with Create

Know the Boundary

Capability also means knowing when not to do it yourself.

Individual Access is designed to make many routine patent-figure tasks easier to understand and handle directly.

But not every figure should become a do-it-yourself project. Complex illustration, specialized drafting, difficult source material, or demanding production work may still be better handled by an experienced patent drafting professional.

Handle Directly Routine work within your capability
Escalate Professional drafting when needed
Work the Process

Do not reinvent the approach every time. Recognize the task, select the workflow, use the right tools, and move through the work deliberately.

Work More Efficiently

Once the process is repeatable, the next opportunity is reducing the unnecessary effort inside that process.

Productivity Methods

Spend less time operating the drawing—and more time on the figure.

Productivity Methods help reduce the repetitive actions, unnecessary setup, and avoidable friction that can slow patent-figure work.

Once the fundamentals are in place, small improvements in how you navigate, select, align, duplicate, format, organize, and reuse drawing elements can make everyday work considerably easier.

From Method to Efficiency
01 Know the task
02 Follow the workflow
03 Remove unnecessary steps
04 Work more efficiently

Everyday Efficiency

Improve the small actions you perform again and again.

01

Navigate

Move through the drawing environment efficiently.

Reduce unnecessary interface movement by becoming comfortable navigating pages, views, drawing areas, and the commands used repeatedly during figure work.

02

Select

Control exactly what you are working with.

Improve how you select individual elements, groups of elements, and drawing regions so that changes can be made deliberately and efficiently.

03

Position

Align and arrange elements with less manual adjustment.

Use alignment, distribution, duplication, and positioning methods instead of repeatedly adjusting elements one at a time.

04

Reuse

Stop rebuilding useful work.

Reuse prepared shapes, structures, templates, stencils, and drawing elements whenever an existing resource provides a better starting point.

05

Organize

Keep complex drawings easier to control.

Use pages, layers, groups, and consistent drawing structures to make figures easier to understand, revise, and maintain.

06

Standardize

Turn good working habits into your normal process.

Establish repeatable ways of setting up and working with figures so routine decisions do not need to be reconsidered on every project.

Where Time Disappears

Patent-figure work contains hundreds of small actions.

A single unnecessary click or adjustment does not matter very much.

But repeated across selections, labels, line work, duplicated elements, page navigation, alignment, formatting, and revisions, small inefficiencies accumulate.

Productivity Methods focus on improving those recurring actions.

01 Repeated setup
02 Repeated formatting
03 Manual positioning
04 Unnecessary navigation
05 Recreating existing elements
06 Reworking inconsistent drawings

A Better Working Method

Replace repetitive effort with deliberate methods.

Repetitive Approach Solve the same small problems repeatedly.
01

Recreate drawing elements

02

Adjust objects individually

03

Repeat formatting manually

04

Search for commands as needed

05

Rebuild familiar setups

Productive Approach Use established methods and reusable resources.
01

Start with reusable elements

02

Use alignment and positioning tools

03

Apply consistent working conventions

04

Use familiar commands efficiently

05

Begin from prepared environments

Reduce Interface Friction

Keep frequently used actions closer to your hands.

Keyboard shortcuts and efficient command habits can reduce the constant movement between the drawing and the interface.

The goal is not to memorize every shortcut in Visio. It is to become fluent with the commands that repeatedly appear in patent-figure work.

Find Locate the command
Learn Use it repeatedly
Fluency Work without interrupting your thought process

Reuse What Already Works

Your previous work can become part of your productivity system.

Useful drawing structures do not have to disappear when a matter is finished.

Appropriate reusable elements can be preserved, organized, and adapted for future work—helping your drawing environment become more useful over time.

Create Develop useful work
Preserve Keep reusable elements
Reuse Start future work further ahead

Efficiency Without Sloppiness

Productivity is not simply drawing faster.

Moving quickly is not useful if it creates inconsistent figures, missed details, or additional revision work.

The objective is to remove unnecessary effort while preserving deliberate control over the drawing.

Less Repetitive effort
More Deliberate control
Better Working efficiency

The Complete Working System

The four pillars work together.

01

Essential Visio Skills

Control the drawing environment.
02

Patent Figure Toolkit™

Start with useful resources.
03

Patent Figure Workflows

Follow a repeatable process.
04

Productivity Methods

Perform the process efficiently.
Remove the Friction

Productivity comes from removing unnecessary work—not from rushing the work that matters.

One Integrated System

Skills, Toolkit resources, workflows, and productivity methods become more valuable when they are used together.

Individual Access

Everything you need to build practical patent-figure capability.

Individual Access brings the IP DaVinci Patent Figure System™ together in one working environment.

Learn the drawing skills, use the Toolkit, follow established workflows, and apply productivity methods as you work with real patent figures.

Your Patent Figure System
01

Learn

Essential Visio Skills
02

Use

Patent Figure Toolkit™
03

Follow

Patent Figure Workflows
04

Improve

Productivity Methods

Included with Individual Access

Learn it. Use it. Keep it available when the work appears.

01

Learning

IP DaVinci learning environment

Step-by-step instruction designed around the Visio skills and drawing methods that matter for patent-figure work.

02

Drawing Resources

Patent Figure Toolkit™

Editable templates, stencils, drawing elements, and supporting resources that give you useful starting points for recurring figure tasks.

03

Processes

Patent Figure Workflows

Repeatable methods for reviewing, revising, tracing, creating, formalizing, and collaborating around patent figures.

04

Efficiency

Productivity Methods

Practical ways to reduce repetitive work, improve drawing control, reuse useful resources, and work more efficiently in Visio.

05

Live Training

Patent Figure Bootstrap™

Join practical live training that brings the core skills, tools, and workflows together and helps you begin applying the system.

06

Ongoing Access

System updates and new resources

Continue benefiting as training, Toolkit resources, workflows, and supporting materials are refined and expanded.

One Working Environment

The components are designed to reinforce one another.

Learn Understand the method
Practice Apply it in Visio
Use Work with Toolkit resources
Apply Handle real figure tasks

Beyond Training

This is not intended to be a course you finish and forget.

Training is only one part of Individual Access. The larger objective is to give you a practical working system that remains useful after the initial learning is complete.

Return to a workflow when a particular problem appears. Open a Toolkit resource when you need a starting point. Revisit a lesson when you need to refresh a skill.

Traditional Course Learn

Complete the material.

IP DaVinci Learn + Apply + Reuse

Keep the system available for the work.

Use It When the Need Appears

You do not need to become a full-time patent draftsman.

Review A figure arrives and you need to understand it.
Revise A routine change can be handled directly.
Create A technical concept needs a visual starting point.
Collaborate A figure can make technical communication clearer.

Capability Develops Through Use

Learn something. Use it. Return when you need more.

01 Learn

Build the skill.

02 Apply

Use it on figure work.

03 Reinforce

Return to the system.

04 Expand

Handle more confidently.

Built for Individual Use

Need capability across a team or organization?

Individual Access is designed for a professional who wants direct access to the IP DaVinci system for their own learning and patent-figure work.

Law firms, corporate IP teams, universities, and other organizations can use organizational programs designed for broader implementation, team training, and shared capability.

Individual Build your own capability Individual Access
Organization Build capability across a team Explore Organizational Solutions
Keep the Capability

Learn the system once. Keep the tools, workflows, and resources available whenever patent-figure work appears.

Individual Access

If this is the capability you want, the next step is choosing your access.

Individual Access

Build your own patent-figure capability.

Get individual access to the complete IP DaVinci Patent Figure System™.

Learn the skills, use the Toolkit, follow the workflows, and keep the System available whenever patent-figure work appears.

IP DaVinci Patent Figure System™

Individual Access

$997 one-time

Included

01 Essential Visio Skills
02 Patent Figure Toolkit™
03 Patent Figure Workflows
04 Productivity Methods
05 Patent Figure Bootstrap™
06 Ongoing system resources and updates
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A simple enrollment process.

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02 Complete payment

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04 Begin your access

Your Individual Access is provisioned through the existing system.

Need More Than One Seat?

Individual Access is for one person.

If you want to build patent-figure capability across a law firm, corporate IP team, university, or another organization, use an organizational program instead.

One-Time Individual Access

Build the capability once, then keep the System available for the patent-figure work that comes next.

Build the Capability

The next patent figure does not have to be another handoff.

Build the skills, tools, and workflows to review, revise, create, and collaborate around patent figures directly—while keeping professional drafting available when you need it.

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Build It Yourself IP DaVinci Patent Figure System™

Develop your own patent-figure capability with the complete System, Toolkit, workflows, and training.

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Have Us Handle It IP DaVinci Studio

Bring in professional patent-figure support when the work is complex, specialized, or better handled for you.

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Build capability where it makes sense. Use professional support where it adds value.