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US Utility application ***Our Fee, Filing Only***

The above flat-fee filing quotes are only for our fee to properly file a Utility application in the US, and, by way of example and not limitation, do not include USPTO fees (see main ones below), review/revision of your submissions, formal drawings, foreign filing, PCT filing, Prosecution, translation fees, any out-of-pocket expenses (e.g., overnight mailing, etc.), responding to USPTO notices/letters that are not due to our action or inaction.  Also, please be advised that your drawings and written portion (specification and claims) must be of suitable quality for filing with the USPTO.  If you additionally want us to review and revise your foreign patent application to US standards, please request a quote for that work.  Generally, when we only file or review your application, we assume no responsibility or liability for what the nature or quality of what you provide to us to file on your behalf with the USPTO.  Our following filing fees apply if we do not review your application, but just properly format and file it based on an English language, MS WORD document for the specification and PDF of the drawings.  Lower filing fees apply if we also review or prepare the application, or if you have high volumes. 

If you have new/amended claims compared to what was last in any priority claimed application, our above fee assumes it is done and you provide it to us ahead of time before the filing; otherwise, add the above quoted cost for us to separately prepare and file your amended claims as a Supplemental Amendment.

As such, in the US, for lowest costs, you’ll usually want to keep/reduce your claims count to under 20 and Independent claims up to 3, and edit/remove multi-dependent claims to only depend on one claim.

Regarding “entity type”, in accordance with our service agreement terms, we selectively offer fee discounts to qualifying individuals or small businesses; that is, a 55% discount for qualifying micro entities and a 50% discount for qualifying small entities. 

NOTE: 

  1. In the US, for lowest costs, you’ll usually want to keep/reduce your claims count to under 20 and Independent claims up to 3, and edit/remove multi-dependent claims to only depend on one claim.
  2. USPTO FEES: In addition to our professional fees above, you need to add the USPTO's official patent application filing fees to your shopping cart, using the following link. 


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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.

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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.

Pricing

Price600.00
Minimum pre-payment100
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