When your product’s appearance helps it stand out, a design patent can help you protect that investment. It protects the visual design shown in your patent and can give you a way to act against competing products with substantially similar designs.
It can be especially useful when your product’s shape, surface details, or overall appearance are part of why customers choose it.
For inventors and companies seeking protection for one product design, with consistent photos or CAD materials available to prepare the drawings.
One design, prepared and filed with email support.
Review of the product materials and claimed appearance
A complete standard drawing set from your consistent photos or CAD
Application preparation and substantive attorney review
One consolidated drawing-review round
Your approval, filing, and verified receipt
Before you engage: We confirm the drawing set and standard-matter fit before engagement. Corrections to our work or our drawing provider’s work do not use your revision allowance.
Guided
The same design application, with a live discussion.
Everything in Essentials
30 minutes of consultation about the product appearance and drawings
Before you engage: The consultation covers the agreed product design and drawing set.
+ $260 government fees at filing*
*Assuming micro-entity eligibility. Additional and later fees are separate.
Compare the work included in each package above. We confirm your project’s scope, fixed fee, and delivery date by email before engagement.
Included in every package
One design for one product
Attorney direction of the appearance claimed and a standard set of formal drawings
One consolidated drawing-review round
Application preparation, your approval, U.S. filing, and verified receipt
What is not included
A design or patentability search
Protection for how the product functions
Additional designs, foreign filings, or later examination responses
Government fees: Government filing fees are separate from the professional fee. Eligibility for any reduced fee needs review.
Drawings & optional charges: A standard drawing set from consistent photos or CAD is included. The required views are confirmed in your quote. Complex reconstruction, extensive illustration work, or additional designs may require a different quote before engagement.
Looking ahead
What comes next?
The patent office examines the design application. Any later response work is separately scoped and priced, with correspondence and deadline responsibilities confirmed in writing.
Service fit, conflicts, scope, and engagement are handled personally before substantive work begins.
Questions about this service.
How much does a design patent application cost?
Our flat professional fee to prepare and file a design application for one product design is $899 (Essentials) or $1,149 with 30 minutes of consultation (Guided), including a standard set of formal drawings from your consistent photos or CAD. Government fees at filing are $260 if you qualify as a micro entity. Complex drawing reconstruction or additional designs may require a different quote before engagement.
Can I protect both appearance and function?
Utility and design applications address different aspects of a product. Whether either or both are appropriate needs individual assessment.
Why do the drawings matter?
The drawings define the appearance shown in the design application. The views and scope need careful review before filing. A necessary view will not be omitted just to meet a figure count.