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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif;color:black">For drawings, use of the PDF format by the USPTO doesn’t assure that they’ll be the same, as between the eGrant document and the “printed” version of the patent downloadable
from Patent Center. I’ve found that the eGrant document for a patent issued January 30<sup>th</sup> seems to present the Figures with relatively smooth grayscale areas, whereas the PDF version of the same “printed” patent that I downloaded from Patent Center
(here, “PC Print”) shows the same Figures with significant pixelation. Attached copies of the eGrant document for US patent 11885786 and the PC Print version of it display a difference that surprised me. Both the eGrant document and the PC Print were generated
from the SCORE version of the Figures, with document code </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1B1B1B">DRW.NONBW.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif;color:#1B1B1B">The eGrant file doesn’t have much in the way of
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif;color:black">artefacts of pixelation, whereas the PC Print version does, despite being generated from the same drawings file in the IFW. I am glad that I’d taken the precaution to upload
a file that I’d characterized as “not” b/w line drawings, so that they were saved in SCORE, and now I find it incorporated into the official eGrant document. Nevertheless, curiously the PC Print file retrieved from Patent Center shows noticeable pixelation,
different from the official eGrant. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif;color:black">I also downloaded a copy of the patent from the site Free Patents Online. The images in that version seem to be a bit more pixelated than those from the USPTO Patent Center.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif;color:black">Notice the significant differences in file size. The eGrant is 5 MB. The PC Print Patent Center is only 2 MB. (Of course, it omits the colored cover pages included in what
the USPTO now dubs the “ceremonial copy” of the patent, and apparently it uses the version of the Figures from SCORE in the IFW that have been smooshed by the USPTO’s procrustean bed algorithm to render as b.w line drawings.) And the download from Free Patents
Online has been compressed down to only 462 KB.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif;color:black">Something to keep in mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif;color:black">-Gerry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif;color:black">Gerry J. Elman, J.D.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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