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Chapter 3
BEYOND THE SPHERICAL PATENT
3.1 SURFACE FEATURES
All patents have in common a number of surface features: a title, an abstract,
a eld of the invention section, a background of the invention section, a
summary of the invention section, a brief description of the drawings section,
a detailed description of the invention section, and a claims section. Almost all
patents include black-and-white line drawings depicting various aspects of the
invention.
Because of their common layout, all patents tend to look the same whether they
are incredibly valuable or absolutely worthless. e scrawniest patent with just a
few pages and a couple o ...