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Utility Application Prep./Filing Bundle w/ Free Fast PPA (Moderate 1)

Fixed Fee Quote*

The USPTO offers small/micro entities a 50% patent filing fee reduction. We are likewise currently, on a limited and selective basis, offering a 50% fee reduction to assist limited budget small/micro entities, who may not be able to otherwise pay our full rates to afford high quality patent legal drafting work. While our corporate clients can afford our normal hourly billing approach, another way that we are currently helping small/micro entities is to provide a fixed-fee, which cost containment we find that small/micro entities greatly prefer. Accordingly, above please see Utility Patent Application quotes for various quality levels under this small/micro entity offer that covers most cost –vs- quality situations.

Normally, the above quotes are our fee to prepare the patent application, and usually do not include any other fees such as patent search, formal drawings, filing, USPTO, Prosecution, or any minor out-of-pocket expenses. However, under this offer, as quoted above, all our normal case and filing fees and Utility Patent Application and related preparation and priority general retainer fees are being included, as set forth in the written quote we provided you. If you have not received a written quote then please contact us with a quote request to properly categorize and match your innovation with our service/fee offering that best achieves your business and budgeting goals.

Bundled w/ Free Fast Quick & Dirty Provisional Patent App. (fPPA)

This Flat-Fee service for micro/small entities, when available, offers a bundling with the fast provisional as a first step promptly after engagement, which is currently a $600 undiscounted value.

The primary risk that a fast provisional filing helps mitigate is your first to file risk that either another smart person/company will get a filing in ahead of yours, or if your ideas are somehow leaked to a 3rd party (usually during prototyping, development, seeking funding or investors, etc. ), whereby they may file a patent application of their own, usually with variance of your main idea, and effectively take priority/ownership of your innovation, or at least limit you to a very narrow, often easy to design around version of your basic design, while they may get the broader scope.

Moreover, most of the world patent offices have been a first to file system for many decades now, and in many, if not most, foreign patent offices, your patent application will be automatically rejected if your innovation was in any way made or known to the public prior to filing a patent application. A US provisional patent application, appropriately prepared and filed with a broad claim typically constitutes a valid patent filing for the purposes of foreign offices and their first to file exclusion laws.

Another common situation where fast provisional is appropriate/critical is when you have made or expect to make a public disclosure (and/or bar date), which is much too close for your patent attorney to draft patent specification, iterate with you in the revisions process, and file the completed patent application in time, and without very steep brushes.

Instead, you would immediately file a fast PPA filed as outlined below. Generally, a PPA filing satisfies the 1 year disclosure bar date law requirement so long as it covers all the matter that was previously disclosed or offered for sale to the public.

The way this usually would work is that your invention submission is filed as a "quick & dirty" PPA and will contain the core concepts/implementation details that the Utility will be based upon, which is usually enough to prove your possession of the invention at the earlier date. Thus, the fast PPA is there at least as proof of earlier reduction to practice of your core innovation(s), which can be significant benefit in many ways- not the least of which is that it proves you had provisional patent basic rights ahead of anyone else who may later try to take your exact product/idea and file a patent for it. Of course, such a “quick & dirty” PPA is very narrow and easy for others to get around, so, especially under the new first-to-file law, you should generally not wait more than 2-3 months to get the full patent application filed; otherwise, there is a much greater risk that others could patent loopholes in the fast PPA which are usually closed in the full patent.

How to Engage our Services

Determine and select the quality level that best fits your goals and budget (i.e., Creative, Top, Good, or Basic);
Instead of our standard full prepayment policy for reduced fixed-fee work, you can take advantage of a reduced minimum down payment fee that is 50% of the below quoted fixed-fee (plus any rush fee quoted) to start patent work on each case. The remaining 50% fees are later due upon your receiving the completed 1st draft of the patent specification for your review/revision.
To get started simply configure the case work according to your situation, using the above menus, add the item to your shopping cart (you may edit your cart for any changes).
Proceed to do the checkout process to make your pre-payment of the above fee amount (e.g., online or ). If you are paying using methods like PayPal/Zelle/check/money order/bank wire/bank depost/ etc., first make the payment using one of those "off-line" means, 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.
After you submit your payment 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.).
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.
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

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