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Create Registered USPTO Account- option: w/ Associating patent applications

This legal service is for us to handle/manage Creating a officially Registered USPTO Account primarily for use in self-managing/accessing the US Patenting process.   Of course, it is always best that you have your own fully Registered USPTO account so that you can always get your own independent control and access of all your patent filings as they are prosecuted at USPTO. Among the many problems this can help avoid, is your patent going abandoned because you did not receive notice of USPTO office actions requiring responses, or not being able to know the status of your patent application in the USPTO process to catch or intervene on problems before they become serious/catastrophic.

We handle the process of properly setting up a USPTO account for you/we to get control of and access to the USPTO's online Patent Center, the electronic filings and documents status system.  The USPTO process for this is very tricky, and can be slow in setting these up.  The first step is we get you your own customer number, then create your uspto.gov account. Then the next step in that process is why manage getting you/your uspto.gov account verified. This can do this online using the uspto.gov account that we create for you and ID.me. According to the USPTO website that should take only about 30 minutes. 

If you do not want to do validation online, you can submit a notarized account authentication form, using the customer number we provide you, which often may be a 2 to 3 week process.  

Also note that if there is an assignee in the patent application, then they will need to also sign forms and show proof of assignment.  That is, the Assignee must attached proof establishing its ownership interest in the app. 

How to Engage our Services

1)     Configure the above shopping cart options (if any) according to what best fits your situation, goals, and/or budget.   (you may always edit your cart to make any changes- see below for details)

a)     The service item may have a text entry field named "Please provide any Special Instructions...", where you should enter any specific guidance or information that may be helpful for us to properly process your order (e.g., any case number we've assigned, deadline situations, how this order relates to any other orders, etc.)

b)     The service item configuration total price will be reflected in the "Selected Combination Total" line item below any options menus.  Likewise, the "Service ID" will be updated to encode your configuration selections.

2)     Click the "select service" button to put the service item you configured into your shopping cart. You will notice shopping cart at the top right of the page, which indicates how many items it currently contains. Click that shopping cart icon anytime you want to see what items are in your shopping cart, and you'll notice a pencil icon on each item which enables you to go back and edit the item, and save your edits by again clicking the "select service" button.

3)     Click the "Checkout" button to begin the checkout process.  On the Checkout page, enter your email address, client status, and PoC information for the legal service you are ordering. Then click the “next intake page” button to proceed to the payment indication page.

4)     Make your payment off-line (i.e., not through our website) using one of the methods specified in the postscript of quoting email. Currently, online payment methods through our website are not implemented yet.

5)     After you made your payment off-line, return to the above payment page on our website where you will specify how much you paid, by what means, and some kind of transaction receipt/info for us to research and match it up to your order to approve it.

a)     NOTE: Most of our services require 100% prepayment of the quoted fee; however, if our emailed written quote indicates a lesser prepayment amount then instead of our standard full prepayment policy for reduced fixed-fee work, you can take advantage of a reduced minimum down payment fee (e.g., 50% of the quoted fixed-fee, plus any rush fee quoted) to start patent work on each case. The remaining fees are later due at least upon our completing the 1st draft of the ordered legal service for your review/revision and/or our filing.

b)     If you paid using methods like PayPal/Zelle/check/money order/bank wire/bank deposit/ etc., then during the above linked checkout process select the "off-line" payment option, which will ask you for which "off-line" payment means you use and a copy of the transaction information so that we may manually confirm and process it to credit it to your account.

6)     After you register your payment per the above, our system will guide you to our online new case intake forms to gather your administrative information for this new patent case (e.g., POC, contacts, inventors, assignees, work request details, service agreement, etc.).

7)     You will be emailed a link to proceed to our secure client portal dashboard to securely submit your materials, documents and instructions for our legal work.

8)     Our team reviews all your submissions and works with you to validate/improve anything needed for us to properly do our legal work.

Of course, if you have any questions not yet answered, or otherwise require any help, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will happily assist you.