What do they mean by: Identification of drawings. Identifying indicia should be provided, and if provided, should include the title of the invention, inventor's name, and application number, or docket number (if any) if an application number has not been assigned to the application. If this information is provided, it must be placed on the front of each sheet within the top margin.

Is this to mean that each sheet that an image is sent must have this information at the top?  In looking at other drawings or images, i am not seeing it.

in claims, is it ok to say:

The connections can be constructed of red fabric; red non-fabric material; leather; or any combination of, at the ends of the apparatus.

For example,

If in a claim, a person is trying to cover different variations of a part of the invented device, is using the "and/or" acceptable terminology.

For example, does the following fly?

The ends of the apparatus constructed of steel and/or aluminum?

Thanks for the replies!

With reference to the last reply regarding "the doohickey 10 of the widget 20 of the gadget 30 of the system 40", what is the acceptable method of addressing something like that throughout the application, where you want to make sure there isn't any confusion as to what the inventor is talking about.


Do you define the doohickey 10 of the widget 20 of the gadget 30 of the system 40 somewhere in the document with a keyword to reference it?

I am brand new to this forum, and am probably asking a very basic question answered somewhere else, but using the search for embodiment, I get a blank page. So I am going ahead and asking it here.

Can someone explain to me where you would use embodiment vs device/apparatus? I believe embodiment is intended to be an overall encompassing abstractive understanding of an application of the device/apparatus a person is getting a patent on.

For example, if you have several of the invented devices/apparatus in something, you would say the device/apparatus was inserted into the embodiment.
But is that correct?