PATENT COSTS

Our Manifesto

In our continued effort for cost efficiency in our work, without compromising on quality, we have adopted several practices to reduce the costs incurred by our clients. These practices include:

• Only one Agent is responsible for your application from start to finish including personally writing all necessary material so that there is no duplication with other persons. This also has the added benefit of avoiding communication errors.

• All US and Canadian applications are filed directly at the Patent Office with no intervening agent so that there is no additional cost for their services and no communication cost. Again, there is the added benefit of avoiding communication errors. Using this arrangement we have obtained at least 1700 US and at least as many Canadian patents for various clients in the past 25 years.

• We tailor our services to the situation of the client so that if suitable, simple provisional applications can be filed at low cost. In addition written materials developed by the client can, if available, be used as a base to significantly reduce costs.

• We select foreign associates for filing foreign applications based on the same principle of cost efficiency, as opposed to their ability to send us corresponding work, so that we obtain the best work at reasonable cost.

• We attend to payment of foreign maintenance fees using an annuity service at a fixed discounted rate, as opposed to using more costly foreign associates to obtain more corresponding work from them.

Exemplary Patent Costs

The following table is an example of the fees a client might expect at various stages of the patent process for a typical invention. The actual fees will depend on the scope of work, the complexity of the invention, the complexity of issues raised by the Patent Office, and other factors.