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Free Friday Patent Figure Workshop

See practical patent figure workflows in action.

A complimentary live workshop for patent attorneys, agents, support professionals, inventors, engineers, researchers, and others who work with patent figures.

See practical patent-figure methods demonstrated in Microsoft Visio and learn how IP DaVinci approaches creating, reviewing, revising, collaborating on, and managing editable utility patent figures. Ask questions and experience the approach live.

Regular Live Workshop

When Fridays

Format Live Online

Focus Practical Workflows

Registration Complimentary

Patent Figure Workflow

01 Source

→

02 Formalize

→

03 Annotate

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04 Revise

Next Live Session

Join the next Free Friday Patent Figure Workshop.

Each session explores practical patent figure work through live demonstrations, clear workflow guidance, and questions from participants.

Upcoming Live Session

Workshop

Next Session Friday

September 4, 2026

1:00 PM Eastern / 10:00 AM Pacific

What You'll Explore

Free Friday Patent Figure Workshop™

A complimentary live workshop exploring practical methods for creating, revising, reviewing, and managing patent figures through demonstrations and participant questions.

Format Live Online

Program Free Friday Workshop

Registration Complimentary

Questions Welcome

Registration

Reserve your place.

Can't Make This One?

The Free Friday Workshop is offered regularly on Fridays. Check this page for the next available live session.

What You'll Learn

Practical skills for working with patent figures.

The Workshop focuses on the practical decisions, methods, and techniques behind efficient patent figure work.

You'll see useful patent figure workflows in action and understand the reasoning behind them. The exact mix can vary with the session, examples, and participant questions.

01 Source

Understand the source material.

Learn how to evaluate sketches, photographs, screenshots, PDFs, CAD exports, existing drawings, and other source material before figure work begins.

02 Formalize

Turn rough material into clear figures.

See practical approaches for converting technical source material into cleaner line drawings, diagrams, flowcharts, and other patent figure formats.

03 Build

Build figures that remain editable.

Understand how editable vector geometry, reusable components, and structured drawing methods make later changes easier to manage.

04 Annotate

Handle labels and reference numbers clearly.

Explore practical methods for placing and maintaining reference numbers, labels, leaders, figure identifiers, and other drawing annotations.

05 Revise

Make revisions without rebuilding the drawing.

Learn workflows for changing geometry, repositioning elements, updating annotations, and responding to figure revisions while preserving editable source files.

06 Control

Keep control through the entire workflow.

See how better organization, editable files, consistent methods, and reusable tools can reduce unnecessary back-and-forth during figure preparation and revision.

Practical, Live, and Useful

The Workshop is designed to make patent figure work easier to understand and apply. We use real examples to connect practical methods with the kinds of figure problems people involved in patent work encounter every day.

How the Workshop Works

Learn the workflow by seeing it happen.

The Free Friday Workshop is built around practical demonstration rather than presentation alone.

We take practical patent figure problems, explain the reasoning behind the workflow, demonstrate the process, and leave room for questions and discussion.

01 Understand

Explain

Start with the problem and the reasoning.

Before touching the drawing, we look at what needs to be accomplished, what makes the workflow difficult, and why a particular approach works.

02 See

Demonstrate

Watch the workflow being performed.

See the tools, sequence, and drawing decisions used to move from the starting material toward a cleaner, more useful, and editable patent figure.

03 Apply

Work Through

Examine the details that make it practical.

We work through the decisions, shortcuts, common problems, and practical techniques that turn a general method into a repeatable workflow.

04 Discuss

Questions

Connect the workflow to your own work.

Ask questions about the demonstrations, clarify parts of the workflow, and discuss how the same principles may apply to patent figure situations you encounter.

Live Session

01 Explain

02 Demonstrate

03 Work Through

04 Questions

Why Live?

Live training makes a workflow easier to understand because you can see the sequence, the decisions, and the small adjustments that happen while the work is actually being done.

What You May See

Practical patent figure workflows — demonstrated live.

Patent figure work involves many recurring tasks. The Workshop brings several of the most useful ones into a practical live demonstration.

Depending on the session and participant questions, demonstrations may include annotation, revisions, flowcharts, system diagrams, image tracing, and related patent figure work.

Annotation

Annotation and Reference Characters

See practical methods for adding, aligning, maintaining, and revising reference characters, leaders, labels, and figure identifiers.

Example Workflow

Place → align → maintain → revise

Revision

Efficient Figure Revisions

See how editable source files and structured methods make geometry changes, comments, repositioning, and annotation updates easier to manage.

Example Workflow

Review → modify → verify → finalize

Flowcharts

Editable Patent Flowcharts

See how process steps, connectors, labels, spacing, and reusable structure can make flowcharts easier to build and revise.

Example Workflow

Structure → connect → organize → revise

System Diagrams

Technical System Diagrams

See practical ways to turn technical relationships into clear, editable patent diagrams using repeatable structure and reusable components.

Example Workflow

Define → structure → connect → refine

Image Tracing

Source Material to Editable Linework

See how photographs, screenshots, sketches, PDFs, CAD exports, and other source material can be converted into clean, editable patent line drawings.

Example Workflow

Source → trace → refine → editable geometry

Who Should Attend

For anyone who works with patent figures.

You don't need to be a professional patent draftsperson to benefit from the Workshop.

The sessions are useful for people who create figures themselves, review or revise drawings, prepare source material, communicate figure changes, or simply want more control over the patent figure process.

01 Legal

Patent Attorneys

Learn practical ways to review, annotate, revise, and communicate changes to patent figures without treating every adjustment as a separate drafting project.

02 Prosecution

Patent Agents

Develop practical figure skills that can make it easier to work with inventor material, prepare diagrams, review drawings, and handle routine revisions during prosecution.

03 Support

Paralegals & Patent Support Teams

Understand the workflows behind figure preparation, annotation, quality review, revisions, and coordination between attorneys, inventors, and drafting resources.

04 Technical

Engineers & Inventors

Learn how sketches, screenshots, diagrams, CAD exports, and other technical material can be prepared and organized to support clearer patent figure development.

05 Research

Researchers & Academic Inventors

See how research diagrams, experimental material, technical illustrations, and rough concepts can be transformed into clearer source material for patent figures.

06 Workflow

Anyone Who Reviews or Revises Figures

Even if you never create a complete patent drawing yourself, understanding how editable figures are structured can make reviewing, marking up, and requesting changes much easier.

The Important Part

You don't have to become a patent draftsperson.

For many participants, the goal is simply to understand patent figures well enough to handle appropriate routine work directly, communicate changes more clearly, and know when professional drafting assistance is the better resource.

Teams Are Welcome

Colleagues can attend together. Attorneys and support staff, IP professionals and engineers, or technology transfer teams and researchers can use the same session to understand the workflow from different perspectives.

What to Expect Live

Come as you are. We'll walk through the workflow.

The Workshop is designed to be easy to join and useful whether you're new to patent figure work or already handle figures regularly.

There is no required preparation. Join the live session, follow the demonstration, take what is useful for your work, and ask questions when something deserves a closer look.

01 Format

Live online.

Join from your office, home, or wherever you work. The session is delivered live so you can see the workflow as it happens.

02 Focus

One focused subject.

Each Workshop uses a practical patent figure workflow or problem rather than trying to cover the entire patent figure process in one session.

03 Demonstration

Practical demonstration.

See the tools, drawing methods, sequence, decisions, and adjustments involved in the workflow instead of hearing about them only in theory.

04 Discussion

Questions are welcome.

Ask about the workflow being demonstrated, clarify individual steps, or explore how the same approach might apply to situations you encounter.

05 Preparation

No preparation required.

You don't need to install software, prepare files, or have Visio open during the session. You can simply watch, learn, and ask questions.

06 Access

Complimentary to attend.

Registration for the Free Friday Patent Figure Workshop is complimentary. Reserve your place and we'll send you the information needed to join.

Your Free Friday Workshop

01 Join

02 Watch

03 Understand

04 Ask

05 Apply

Just Curious?

You're welcome to simply watch.

You don't need to be ready to change your workflow, purchase software, or implement a patent figure system. The Workshop is an opportunity to see practical methods and decide what is useful for you.

Why IP DaVinci

Built from decades of practical patent drawing work.

IP DaVinci grew from more than 30 years of experience working with patent drawings and the people who depend on them.

During that time, the same challenge appeared repeatedly: patent professionals often needed to review, revise, explain, or manage drawings, but had never been given a practical system for doing that work themselves.

30+ Years in Patent Drawings

The Workshop comes from the work itself.

The methods demonstrated in the Free Friday Workshop are based on practical patent figure work: preparing drawings, formalizing source material, making revisions, working with technical information, and solving the small drawing problems that arise during real projects.

The goal is not simply to teach software commands. It is to help participants understand a repeatable way of approaching patent figure work.

01 Practical

Start with real workflows.

The focus is on recurring patent figure tasks and problems rather than software features presented in isolation.

02 Repeatable

Turn techniques into methods.

A useful workflow should be understandable, repeatable, and easier to apply the next time the same type of figure problem appears.

03 Controlled

Keep the drawing editable.

Editable source files make it easier to review drawings, respond to changes, reuse work, and maintain greater control throughout the figure process.

How It Fits Together

The Workshop also shows how these practical workflows connect to the broader IP DaVinci approach.

The IP DaVinci Patent Figure System™ brings together Training, the Patent Figure Toolkit™, and Support so individuals and organizations can build practical, repeatable patent-figure capability.

Free Friday is a complimentary IP DaVinci Live Training experience. It gives you an opportunity to see practical methods, ask questions, and experience the IP DaVinci approach before deciding whether broader System access is useful for you or your organization.

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Workshop FAQ

Before you join.

The Free Friday Patent Figure Workshop is designed to be simple to attend.

Here are answers to the most common questions about registration, software, experience, participation, and the live sessions.

01 Is the Free Friday Workshop free to attend?

Yes. Registration for the Free Friday Patent Figure Workshop is complimentary.

02 Do I need Microsoft Visio to attend?

No. You can attend simply to watch and understand the workflow. You do not need to have Visio open, install software, or follow along during the live session.

Some demonstrations use Microsoft Visio because it is the primary drawing environment used with IP DaVinci, but the underlying methods and reasoning are also useful for understanding patent figure work more generally.

03 Do I need patent drawing experience?

No. The Workshop is designed to be useful to people with different levels of experience, including those who are only beginning to work directly with patent figures.

More experienced participants can also use the Workshop to explore practical workflows, techniques, and productivity methods.

04 Do I need to create complete patent drawings myself?

No. Many participants may never create a complete patent drawing from beginning to end.

The workflows can also help people who review figures, make routine revisions, annotate drawings, prepare source material, communicate changes, or coordinate with drafting resources.

05 What topics are covered?

The Workshop focuses on practical patent figure work and uses live demonstrations to make the methods clear and useful.

Demonstrations may include annotation, revisions, flowcharts, system diagrams, image tracing, formalizing inventor material, editable figures, drawing consistency, and related Visio workflows. The exact mix may vary by session.

06 Can I ask questions during the Workshop?

Yes. Questions are part of the live format. You can ask for clarification about the workflow being demonstrated or discuss how the same principles may apply to situations you encounter.

07 Can several people from the same organization attend?

Yes. Teams are welcome. Attorneys, agents, support professionals, engineers, inventors, researchers, and other colleagues can attend the same session.

Each participant should register so we can provide the appropriate session information.

08 Is the Workshop the same as the IP DaVinci Patent Figure System?

No. The Free Friday Workshop is a complimentary live educational session. It gives you a practical look at patent figure workflows and the IP DaVinci approach.

The full Patent Figure System™ goes further with structured Training, the Patent Figure Toolkit™, and ongoing Support for developing and applying practical patent-figure capability.

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09 How do I register for the next session?

Use the registration option for the upcoming session on this page. After registering, you'll receive the information needed to join the live session.

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Looking for information beyond the Workshop?

Visit the main IP DaVinci FAQ for questions about the Patent Figure System, individual access, organizations, training, Studio, technology, and other services.

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