We draft and file provisional and utility applications and handle the back-and-forth with the USPTO. Drafting and prosecution are done by registered patent attorneys or agents, with the strategy tied to your product and fundraising plans. The aim is claims that cover what competitors would actually copy.
At a glance
- Practice
- IP
- Pricing
- Flat fee, quoted before we start
- Included
- 6 deliverables
- Process
- 3 steps, one named attorney
- Where we work
- Slack, email or a call
When founders call us
The moments that usually bring a company to us for this work.
- 01
You are about to launch, publish or pitch widely and need a filing on record first
- 02
Your provisional is approaching its 12-month deadline
- 03
The USPTO issued an office action rejecting your claims
- 04
You want to extend protection to other countries through a PCT application
What you get
Scoped in writing before we start. One flat fee for all of it.
- Provisional application drafted from your technical materials and inventor interviews
- Utility (non-provisional) application with claims and formal drawings
- Inventorship review and assignment documents recorded to the company
- Office action analysis and written responses, including examiner interviews where useful
- PCT and foreign filing coordination where your plan calls for it
- Docket of deadlines for conversion, responses and maintenance fees
How it works
- 1
Inventor interviews
A registered practitioner meets your inventors to capture how the invention works and its variations.
- 2
Draft and review
You review the draft claims and specification, and we revise until the technical detail is right.
- 3
File and prosecute
We file with the USPTO, track deadlines and respond to examiner actions as they arrive.
Mistakes we help you avoid
The ones we see most often, and catch before they cost you.
- Avoided
Filing a thin provisional that does not support the claims you later need, so the priority date does not carry over
- Avoided
Missing the 12-month window to convert a provisional or claim priority abroad
- Avoided
Listing the wrong inventors, which can put the patent's validity at risk
- Avoided
Leaving the patent in a founder's name instead of assigning it to the company
Patent Strategy & Prosecution: questions founders ask
It is a lower-formality filing that establishes a priority date with the USPTO. It is never examined and never becomes a patent by itself. You have 12 months to file a non-provisional or PCT application that claims its benefit, or the priority date is lost.
Patent applications are prepared and prosecuted before the USPTO by registered patent attorneys or patent agents, who have passed the USPTO's registration exam. AI tools help us organize materials and check consistency, but a registered practitioner is responsible for the filing.
It is the examiner's written response to your application, often rejecting some or all claims over prior art or other grounds. Rejections are a normal part of the process. You respond with arguments, claim amendments or both, and there are deadlines for doing so.
A PCT application lets you preserve rights in many countries with one filing and defers the cost of individual national filings. It makes sense if you expect to sell or face competitors abroad. It must generally be filed within 12 months of your earliest priority date.
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