A Seamless Partnership Between Expert Illustrators and Registered Attorneys.
Finding a reliable patent attorney can be difficult. At Artworks IP, we have established long-term relationships with trusted, registered patent attorneys who specialize in various technical fields.
Your One-Stop Solution: We act as your central hub. While we craft your USPTO-compliant drawings, our partner attorneys handle the legal claims, specifications, and filing. This integrated approach ensures your drawings perfectly match your claims, eliminating communication gaps and delays.
Before investing in a full application, our partner attorneys perform a comprehensive Prior Art Search. They analyze existing patents to determine the novelty of your idea and provide a legal opinion on patentability.
Our partner attorneys handle the heavy lifting of writing the Provisional or Non-Provisional Utility application. They draft the background, detailed description, and legal claims to provide broad protection.
Once the drawings and application are approved, our partners handle the electronic filing via the USPTO's EFS-Web system, ensuring all forms (ADS, Declaration, IDS) are submitted correctly.
No need to act as the middleman between your artist and your lawyer. We coordinate directly with the drafting attorney to ensure figure labels match the written description exactly.
Take a look at our other services including patent drawings, technical illustrations, 3D renderings, and trial graphic services.
A transparent, step-by-step view of how Artworks IP and our partner attorneys carry a project from idea to issued patent.
You tell us what you’ve invented — in plain language, with whatever sketches, photos, or prototypes you have. We listen first, then recommend whether a utility, design, or provisional application is the right starting point. No legal advice at this stage — just an honest read of where your project sits.
Based on your technology area, we introduce you to one of our registered patent attorneys. You sign an engagement letter directly with the attorney, who holds the attorney–client relationship and all legal accountability. We stay in the loop only to coordinate illustrations.
Before you invest in a full application, the attorney runs a comprehensive prior-art search and delivers a written patentability opinion. This is often the single best money you can spend — either confirming a clear path forward or saving you the cost of an application that was never going to issue.
While the attorney drafts the specification and claims, we draft USPTO-compliant patent figures. We cross-reference every reference numeral and every view callout with the written description, so when the attorney finalizes the specification, the figures already match.
You review the full package — figures, claims, specification, abstract, and the Application Data Sheet. Once you approve, the attorney files electronically through USPTO EFS-Web and sends you confirmation of the filing receipt and application number.
If the examiner returns a drawing objection (informalities, shading, line quality, new-matter concerns), we handle the figure fixes at our standard rate — while the attorney argues the legal issues. Your application moves forward without the usual hand-off friction between a freelance illustrator and a law firm.
Illustrations and legal text that are built in isolation almost always collide. Coordinating them up front is cheaper than fixing them twice.
A reference numeral that appears in the figures but nowhere in the specification — or vice versa — is a classic trigger for a 35 U.S.C. § 132 new-matter objection. Because our draftsmen and partner attorneys share a working document, these mismatches get caught before the application is ever filed.
When an office action arrives, you don’t have to route figure revisions through a second firm. The attorney flags what the examiner wants, we revise the drawings the same day, and the response goes out inside the original deadline — often with no extension fee.
Claims are only as strong as the figures they rely on. Our partner attorneys know our line weights, callout conventions, and view practices, so they can draft claim language that maps cleanly to what the figures actually show — which matters later if the patent is ever litigated.
You call or email Artworks IP. We handle the scheduling, the figure revisions, and the check-ins with the attorney. For busy inventors and in-house teams, that single hand-off is worth more than the dollars it saves.
Our Partners Support Clients Across Industries
"Artworks IP made the process incredibly easy. They introduced me to a fantastic attorney who understood my technology, and both teams stayed coordinated from first sketch through filing. I never had to play middleman — I just signed off at each step."
— Independent Inventor"Having illustration and legal strategy handled under one roof saved us weeks of back-and-forth. The figures matched the specification exactly on the first pass, which is rarer than it should be. We'll use Artworks again on every filing."
— Startup Founder"Al's attorney recommendations have been spot-on every single time. The partner he connected me with responded quickly, priced fairly, and treated my application like it mattered. That kind of trust is hard to come by."
— Product Designer, Northern VirginiaQuick answers to the questions we hear most often.
No. Artworks IP is a patent illustration and drafting-support firm. For the legal work — claim drafting, specifications, filings, Office Action responses, and any opinion on patentability — we refer you to registered patent attorneys we've partnered with for years. You get one coordinated team, but the legal work is performed by licensed professionals.
You contact us. We assess the project and bring in the right partner attorney for your technology area. The attorney handles the legal application while we handle the USPTO-compliant figures in parallel. We coordinate between both sides — for example making sure figure numerals match the specification — so you aren't stuck relaying changes back and forth.
A provisional application establishes a US filing date and the right to claim ‘patent pending’ for 12 months, but is never examined and expires unless converted. A non-provisional is the formal application that the USPTO examines and that can issue as a patent. Our partner attorneys can advise which route fits your situation, budget, and timeline.
Total cost depends on complexity, entity size (micro, small, or large), number of figures, and whether you're filing provisional, non-provisional, design, or international. USPTO government fees alone range from roughly $320 for a micro-entity provisional up to several thousand for large-entity utility filings, separate from attorney and illustration fees. We provide a written estimate before any work begins.
Absolutely. Many of our clients are existing attorney-client pairs who just need high-quality, USPTO-compliant drawings. Send us the draft application and any sketches, and we'll deliver figures that match the specification precisely — no disruption to your existing legal relationship.
Get USPTO-compliant drawings and a registered patent attorney, coordinated under one roof.
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