Utility patent

Apply for a utility patent.

Prepare and file an application to protect how your invention works.

A utility patent protects how your invention works. Once granted, it can give you the right to stop competitors from making, using, or selling products covered by your patent—even if their products look different.

That protection can help you defend the advantage you’ve created and build a business around your invention.

For inventors ready to pursue a U.S. patent, including the next stage after a provisional. Matters from all technology fields are considered; the fixed quote depends on the particular work.

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A simple first step

Let’s get started.

A free 15-minute conversation with me about your goals and next steps.

Prefer email? parth@searchlight.law

No payment required. An inquiry does not create an attorney-client relationship or accept a deadline.

A clear scope comes first

Choose the support that suits you.

Compare the work included in each package below. I confirm your project’s scope, fixed fee, and delivery date by email before engagement.

Included in every package

One agreed invention, prepared from your technical materials
A written application, claims, abstract, and agreed necessary drawings
One consolidated client revision round and your approval before filing
Required filing documents, U.S. submission, and verified receipt

What is not included

A patentability search or freedom-to-operate opinion
Responses to patent-office objections, appeals, or later applications
Foreign filings or a guarantee that a patent will issue

Essentials

$2,949

Professional fee

+ $400 government fees at filing^*

*Assuming micro-entity eligibility. Additional and later fees are separate.

Attorney preparation and filing, with email support.

One invention, based on a complete technical packet
Description, claims defining the requested protection, abstract, and agreed drawings
Substantive attorney review and email support
One consolidated client revision round
Your approval, filing documents, submission, and verified receipt

Before you engage: This is the standard-matter professional fee. More extensive work receives its own fixed quote before engagement.

Ask about Essentials

Guided

$3,399

Professional fee

+ $400 government fees at filing^*

*Assuming micro-entity eligibility. Additional and later fees are separate.

The same preparation, with strategy and review calls.

Everything in Essentials
A 30-minute invention and strategy discussion
A 20-minute draft-review call

Before you engage: The calls cover the agreed invention, application, and requested protection.

Ask about Guided

Government fees: Government filing, search, and examination fees are separate. Fee eligibility needs individual review.

Drawings & optional charges:The quote defines the necessary drawing work. Extensive illustrations, additional inventions, and complex priority or other filing work may need a different fixed quote, agreed before engagement. Technology alone does not determine the price.

Looking ahead

What comes next?

The patent office examines the application. If the Patent Office raises questions or objections (in a notice called an “office action”), I can help with those too. That work has a separate fee, agreed in advance. After filing, I explain the next steps and who is responsible for following up.

Service fit, conflicts, scope, and engagement are handled personally before substantive work begins.

Questions about this service.

What are claims?

Claims are the part of the application that defines the protection you ask the patent office to grant.

Does the preparation fee include every later response?

No. Work during patent-office examination is separately scoped and priced. The engagement and handoff identify who handles correspondence and deadlines.

Do you limit the application to a certain number of pages?

No. We define the invention and work before engagement. Page counts do not determine what disclosure is needed, and ordinary underestimation of the agreed work does not create a surprise extra fee.

Protect your invention.

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