If you qualify as a small or micro entity and we have offered you one of our reduced flat-fee Utility patent process bundles then you may procure a focused Patent Prosecution Legal Consultation, where we analyze, break down, and creatively strategize your best way forward and structure your strongest claims based on the nature of your innovation, and your protection/business goals.  Your payment for this service option may also be credited towards any our bundled Utility patent offerings, as explained in more detail below.  

 

Creative Consultation Option  

For many micro entity clients and projects, their own assessments are sufficient to make an actionable patenting decision, especially if they consider themselves as subject matter experts in their field of the innovation.  However, some particularly mission critical/high value client projects may want/need a more in-depth analysis and creatively explore strategic options, esp. in situations where a significant investment is being made that depends on, or would benefit from, creating the most optimal broad/high barriers protection structure to block others from copying the ‘spirit’ of the innovation /business model, or where your patentability position may be too narrow/weak for your business goals.  If so, then you may want to order and request our Creative Consultation Option, which is conducted by phone.  The Creative Consultation meeting provides a creative legal and protection strategy and structuring analysis with in-depth opinions, and makes an attempt to find creative alternative ‘out of the box’ ways to protect the innovation, avoid expected prior art, establish an exclusive market, and answer situation specific innovation/patenting related questions that tend to be more difficult esp. in the context of business goals.

 

Our principal, Mr. Ariel Bentolila conducts these Creative Consultations, as he uniquely brings a wealth of nearly 30 years of advanced academic, industry, scientific, business, marketing, patent prosecution legal, and litigation experience to creatively perform all levels of innovation analysis, protection, and strategies.  Normally, for the Creative Consultation phone meeting Option he bills an additional $600 for simple to moderate creative analysis/opinion situations.  However, if we have offered you one of our reduced flat-fee Utility patent process bundles then you may take advantage of this Creative Consultation phone meeting Option at the above reduced flat-fee price, which may also be credited towards any Utility patent work we may proximally do on the same invention under the same initial flat-fee Utility patent bundle offer.  

To order that, simply add the service on this page to your shopping cart, and subsequently do the checkout process to remit the reduced, creditable fee to us, and subsequently complete our intake form where we gather your technical input, and then call in to schedule the phone meeting time.  This technical input enables a more accurate assessment/opinion analysis by providing your input from a technical, inventor, point of view.  Then, we would be happy to schedule the Creative Consultation phone meeting to render the live creative analysis and in-depth final patentability legal opinion (red light/green light).  We prefer to get the inventors technical input by email.  This makes the most of the limited opinion meeting time by getting your feedback ahead of time, leaving more time in the meeting for your potentially many questions.  In the meeting he may provide you a more in-depth legal breakdown/analysis of the closest prior art in the context of your technical input (as requested below).  If he gives you the red light (i.e., not likely patentable) then the project usually stops there, and you have no further obligations.  This is the most common outcome because we usually find prior-art patents that can be combined to render the submitted invention obvious under the USPTO's section 103 rejection basis (which they use to reject at least 70% of all patent applications submitted).