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, whether you’re launching a business or expanding an established one.
For inventors and companies 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.
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.
Guided
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.
+ $400 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 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
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”), we can help with those too. That work has a separate fee, agreed in advance. After filing, we 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.
How much does a utility patent application cost?
Our flat professional fee to prepare and file a utility application for one invention in a standard matter is $2,949 with email support (Essentials) or $3,399 with a 30-minute strategy discussion and a 20-minute draft-review call (Guided). Government filing, search, and examination fees at filing are $400 if you qualify as a micro entity. More extensive work receives its own fixed quote before engagement, and responses to office actions are quoted separately.
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.