Good evening all,
How do you distinguish in a drawing two different "features" you want to separately annotate if they are one piece? i.e. "A head portion homogeneously connected by construction to an elongated member". How do you define where one ends and the other begins? Do you break away each piece and explain them? (I've read that can cause one "skilled in the art" to not be able to reproduce your published invention invalidating the patent). Do you use dotted lines that set a boundary for each claimed feature on the drawing and then connect that perimeter to a numbered line? Crosshatching? Advise welcome
Thanks