Patent ID: 7001542

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a colored contact lens, the method comprising the steps of: molding a lower lens body with a curved bottom surface adapted for contact with an eye and an upper surface opposite said bottom surface, using a lower mold and an upper mold with a first lens material; cutting off a portion of said lower lens body extending from all of said upper surface of the lower lens body, forming a centrally located optical portion disposed within an annular cut portion, the optical portion extending above an upper surface of said annular cut portion, said annular cut portion extending from said optical portion to a peripheral edge of said upper surface of the lower lens body; forming an iris-colored part having an iris shape on the annular cut portion; molding an upper lens body on the lower lens body over said optical portion and said cut portion using the lower and upper mold with a second lens material; and cutting and off an upper surface of the upper lens body.