1. Read GENERAL INVENTOR INFORMATION on the website.
2. Make your decision about the legal protection of your idea or invention.
3. If you decide to patent your technical idea or invention, please CONTACT US.
4. I will email to you my Confidential Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) signed by me. Please read it. If you agree to the NDA, please sign and date it.
5. Email the Confidential Agreement signed by you to me along with an explanation and sketches of your invention. It is desirable that the explanation be as detail as possible. It should preferably include similar devices, products, or process (prior art) known to you, and ought to indicate, if possible, their incapacity or insufficiency, which would be overcome by your invention. The explanation should describe every element of your device, process, or product. Each element should be named with a numeral reference also shown on your sketches. You need to describe the way in which it’s connected with the other elements. Your paper has to explain how your invention works or may be used.
6. When I get your signed Confidential Agreement, your explanation and sketches, you’re entitled to a Free Initial Consultation by telephone (within 15 minutes) or by e-mail.
7. If there is a possibility to apply for a patent, I usually advise to conduct a patent search. You may choose one of the following ways to do the search:
- Do it yourself: go to the U.S. PTO website: www.uspto.gov, and notify me in writing, then send me copies of recovered in your search prior patents, etc.;
- Order me a Partial U.S. Patent Search from 1976 to Present (You will have to read, understand, and sign a Patent Search Agreement that I will email to you).
- Do it without the search (not suggested) and notify me in writing.
If you have chosen to order me one the patent search, I will quote you the actual Patent Search Fee.
8. If the results of Patent Search are positive (applying for patent is recommended), you may choose to
- Order me a preparation of a Provisional (see in GENERAL INVENTOR INFORMATION) patent application;
- Order me a preparation of a Nonprovisional (see in GENERAL INVENTOR INFORMATION) or regular utility patent application;
- Order me a PCT International Stage (see in GENERAL INVENTOR INFORMATION) application (if further foreign applications are desirable);
- Order me a PCT National Stage (see in GENERAL INVENTOR INFORMATION) application (if your International Stage of PCT applications is completed, and the United States is designated);
- Order me a Design (see in GENERAL INVENTOR INFORMATION) application;
Then I email you a Patent Search Agreement. Should you have questions regarding the Service Agreement, feel free to CONTACT US.
Please also see the Preliminary Patent Application Fees in the FEE SCHEDULE. The actual patent application drafting fee and drawings fee (if any) will be quoted to you based on the type of your application, complexity of your invention, amount of description, number of embodiments, number of drawings, and the Current Discount Rates (if any) announced in the FEE SCHEDULE.
9. I will draft the patent application based on your explanation and sketches earlier sent to me by you (see clause 5 above). You may provide me with formal drawings, which will be needed in any case if your application is allowed into patent. Sometimes, if your drawings do not comply with the current PTO standards, your application may not be examined until you submit the required drawings complying with the standards.
10. If you agree on the fees (agreed Fee), I will send to you the Service Agreement dated and signed by me. You will have to read, understand (you’re always welcome to ask me questions about the application), sign and date the Service Agreement andsend it me along with Deposit (see also Accepted Methods of Payment in the FEE SCHEDULE) which Deposit will also be specified in the Service Agreement. You should keep the Service Agreement signed by both of us for your records.
11. A draft of specification for your application will normally be forwarded to you in about two to eight weeks after receipt of the Service Agreement and the Deposit being accounted onto my bank account, unless specified otherwise in the Service Agreement.
12. When you pay the balance consisting of the remaining portion of the agreed Fee (left after payment of the Deposit) and the additional expenses for your application as set forth in the Service Agreement, I will complete the application and forward to you all forms necessary for filing for your review and signing.
13. Next I should receive all the forms signed by you along with the patent application government filing fees (the current amount is posted on the official PTO website www.uspto.gov) made out to the Commissioner for Patents, and then I will send the application along with necessary documents to the U.S. PTO for filing.
14. J The U.S. PTO will issue an Office Action in due course allowing or rejecting your patent application. If it’s allowed (Notice of Allowance) you’ll have to pay the patent issue fee (the current amount is posted on the official PTO website www.uspto.gov) and my Finish Fee (see in the FEE SCHEDULE) to complete the patent issuance.
15. L If the application is rejected (Rejection Notice) in most of the cases it’s possible to submit a response to the Office Action to overcome the rejection. I will quote to you my Response Fee. Please see the Preliminary Response Fee in the FEE SCHEDULE. The PTO then will issue another Office Action that will allow or reject your application. If you have a final rejection, you may want to appeal it, file a request for continuing examination, a continuing application, or abandon your application by inaction or by formal abandonment.
16. If your utility application issues into patent, your maintenance fees will be due on certain dates (the current amounts and issue anniversary dates of payments are posted on the official PTO website www.uspto.gov). The typical term of your patent is currently twenty years from the filing date of utility (plant) patent application. The design application does not require a maintenance fee and typically has a term of fourteen years from the date of issuance.
2. Make your decision about the legal protection of your idea or invention.
3. If you decide to patent your technical idea or invention, please CONTACT US.
4. I will email to you my Confidential Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) signed by me. Please read it. If you agree to the NDA, please sign and date it.
5. Email the Confidential Agreement signed by you to me along with an explanation and sketches of your invention. It is desirable that the explanation be as detail as possible. It should preferably include similar devices, products, or process (prior art) known to you, and ought to indicate, if possible, their incapacity or insufficiency, which would be overcome by your invention. The explanation should describe every element of your device, process, or product. Each element should be named with a numeral reference also shown on your sketches. You need to describe the way in which it’s connected with the other elements. Your paper has to explain how your invention works or may be used.
6. When I get your signed Confidential Agreement, your explanation and sketches, you’re entitled to a Free Initial Consultation by telephone (within 15 minutes) or by e-mail.
7. If there is a possibility to apply for a patent, I usually advise to conduct a patent search. You may choose one of the following ways to do the search:
- Do it yourself: go to the U.S. PTO website: www.uspto.gov, and notify me in writing, then send me copies of recovered in your search prior patents, etc.;
- Order me a Partial U.S. Patent Search from 1976 to Present (You will have to read, understand, and sign a Patent Search Agreement that I will email to you).
- Do it without the search (not suggested) and notify me in writing.
If you have chosen to order me one the patent search, I will quote you the actual Patent Search Fee.
8. If the results of Patent Search are positive (applying for patent is recommended), you may choose to
- Order me a preparation of a Provisional (see in GENERAL INVENTOR INFORMATION) patent application;
- Order me a preparation of a Nonprovisional (see in GENERAL INVENTOR INFORMATION) or regular utility patent application;
- Order me a PCT International Stage (see in GENERAL INVENTOR INFORMATION) application (if further foreign applications are desirable);
- Order me a PCT National Stage (see in GENERAL INVENTOR INFORMATION) application (if your International Stage of PCT applications is completed, and the United States is designated);
- Order me a Design (see in GENERAL INVENTOR INFORMATION) application;
Then I email you a Patent Search Agreement. Should you have questions regarding the Service Agreement, feel free to CONTACT US.
Please also see the Preliminary Patent Application Fees in the FEE SCHEDULE. The actual patent application drafting fee and drawings fee (if any) will be quoted to you based on the type of your application, complexity of your invention, amount of description, number of embodiments, number of drawings, and the Current Discount Rates (if any) announced in the FEE SCHEDULE.
9. I will draft the patent application based on your explanation and sketches earlier sent to me by you (see clause 5 above). You may provide me with formal drawings, which will be needed in any case if your application is allowed into patent. Sometimes, if your drawings do not comply with the current PTO standards, your application may not be examined until you submit the required drawings complying with the standards.
10. If you agree on the fees (agreed Fee), I will send to you the Service Agreement dated and signed by me. You will have to read, understand (you’re always welcome to ask me questions about the application), sign and date the Service Agreement andsend it me along with Deposit (see also Accepted Methods of Payment in the FEE SCHEDULE) which Deposit will also be specified in the Service Agreement. You should keep the Service Agreement signed by both of us for your records.
11. A draft of specification for your application will normally be forwarded to you in about two to eight weeks after receipt of the Service Agreement and the Deposit being accounted onto my bank account, unless specified otherwise in the Service Agreement.
12. When you pay the balance consisting of the remaining portion of the agreed Fee (left after payment of the Deposit) and the additional expenses for your application as set forth in the Service Agreement, I will complete the application and forward to you all forms necessary for filing for your review and signing.
13. Next I should receive all the forms signed by you along with the patent application government filing fees (the current amount is posted on the official PTO website www.uspto.gov) made out to the Commissioner for Patents, and then I will send the application along with necessary documents to the U.S. PTO for filing.
14. J The U.S. PTO will issue an Office Action in due course allowing or rejecting your patent application. If it’s allowed (Notice of Allowance) you’ll have to pay the patent issue fee (the current amount is posted on the official PTO website www.uspto.gov) and my Finish Fee (see in the FEE SCHEDULE) to complete the patent issuance.
15. L If the application is rejected (Rejection Notice) in most of the cases it’s possible to submit a response to the Office Action to overcome the rejection. I will quote to you my Response Fee. Please see the Preliminary Response Fee in the FEE SCHEDULE. The PTO then will issue another Office Action that will allow or reject your application. If you have a final rejection, you may want to appeal it, file a request for continuing examination, a continuing application, or abandon your application by inaction or by formal abandonment.
16. If your utility application issues into patent, your maintenance fees will be due on certain dates (the current amounts and issue anniversary dates of payments are posted on the official PTO website www.uspto.gov). The typical term of your patent is currently twenty years from the filing date of utility (plant) patent application. The design application does not require a maintenance fee and typically has a term of fourteen years from the date of issuance.
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