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Only one Agent is responsible for your application from start to finish to avoid duplicated efforts and reduce the potential for communication errors that may occur when information is being conveyed through multiple parties.

All Canadian applications, and U.S. applications for Canadian applicants, 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 a 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.