How It Works: The 1-2-3 Flat Fee Patent Process

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Step 1: Readiness & Eligibility Call

A one on one call, up to 60 minutes, directly with the attorney. The job of Step 1 is to answer one question honestly: is your invention ready for a real patentability investigation? We confirm your idea is the kind of subject matter a U.S. utility patent can protect, that it is developed enough to search, and that nothing in your situation, like a prior public disclosure or an employer's claim to ownership, changes the plan. Bring every question you have about the firm and the patent process. Answering them is part of the call.

Step 1 covers

Whether your invention is the type a utility patent can protect
Who the true inventors are under patent law
Whether an employer, partner, or company may own rights
Public disclosures, sales, and the one year deadline
Micro entity eligibility, which sets your USPTO fee level
Timelines, costs, and exactly what happens next

Step 1 deliberately does not include

Any patentability opinion. That is Step 2's job, done properly
Any prior art searching
Drafting of any kind

If your idea is not a fit, or not ready, you will hear that on this call, along with what would make it ready.

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$1,500 flat

Step 2: Worldwide Prior Art Search & Analysis

You upload a written description and drawings or photos through a secure portal. Rough sketches and phone photos are fine. I then personally search the worldwide prior art: U.S. and international patents and published applications, non patent literature, and competing products, using professional search techniques and advanced AI assisted tools, with every result reviewed by the attorney. You receive a detailed written analysis comparing your invention to the closest prior art found, and it culminates in a straight recommendation.

Green light

The prior art looks clear enough to justify drafting and filing, and the written analysis explains exactly why. Green lights are rare here, which is why one means something.

Yellow light

Patentability is uncertain. You may proceed if the business case justifies the risk, and the report tells you precisely what the risk is. Most cases land here or at red.

Red light

I recommend you do not file. You are out $1,500 instead of $15,000, which is the entire point of searching before drafting.

A note on honesty

No search can promise an outcome at the USPTO. Databases update, examiners search differently than attorneys, and some pending applications are invisible to everyone. What Step 2 gives you is a rigorous, written professional recommendation before you commit real money.

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$13,500 flat

Step 3: Draft, File & Prosecute

For cases that move forward, I draft your complete U.S. utility patent application: the specification, the claims, the abstract, and professionally prepared drawings. The application is filed under the USPTO's Track One expedited program, and I prosecute it through to issuance or final office action. The goal is your issued patent in hand about one year after you start. Most applications receive at least one rejection along the way; that is normal, expected, and included.

The flat fee includes

Complete application drafting by the attorney personally
Professional patent drawings
USPTO filing, search, examination, and Track One fees at micro entity rates
Every office action response your case needs
Examiner interviews and claim amendments
Prosecution through issuance or final office action

Outside the flat fee

Continuation applications and appeals, quoted separately if ever needed
Foreign and international filings, referrals provided without markup
Design patents
USPTO fee differences if you do not qualify as a micro entity, disclosed and agreed in writing first

Typical Track One pacing: first office action in roughly 3 to 5 months, final disposition in roughly 10 to 12 months. The USPTO controls its own timing.