Accelerated Examination for a United States Non-Provisional Utility Patent Budget Estimate for a non-complex invention

 

Known as Schedules A & B to the Attorney-Client Fee and Representation Agreement

This is a program started in fall 2006 that allows for expedited examination of a utility application without the need for cause, in other words the prior cause reasons for petitions to make special; such as age, health, finance, manufacturing, infringement, specified technologies, etc. are not needed. In this program you are guaranteed patent application issue (if the case is allowable) in no more than 12 months, plus you will receive a 1st office action in 3 months, so you will know quickly if your application has patentability potential from the United States Patent Office (USPTO).

Now the downside, the added cost is about $6,000 which includes;

1. A super prior art search including US and Foreign patent/patent application publications plus non-patent publications world-wide, estimated at about $4,000 (note this can be very useful as you will have a very complete picture of the world-wide prior art for your technology, before you have make a foreign filing decision, also contrast this to a standard pre-application prior art search which basically just includes US patents/patent application publications).

2. A complete analysis of patentability of the application claims to the US patent office in view of the super search by the patent attorney, estimated at about $2,000.

3. There are other limitations as to application size, response times, and the like plus a minor petition fee to the US patent office.

 

Basically, under this program we make a complete justification to the US patent office of your patentability, wherein they just approve our work. Note, this can be done to an ALREADY FILED patent application under a continuation, wherein the 12 month clock starts at the continuation filing time.