We work with you collaboratively and concurrently, preferably using an online collaboration tool, to work together to “flush out” your invention and set it to paper in a text document (for example, a Microsoft Word document), with accompanying drawings (informal or formal, typically in pdf format) sufficient  to together show that you as the inventor had possession of the invention at the time the provisional application is filed.  Provisional applications are a financially expedient means for getting to the patent office first.

The text document and any drawings realized through our collaboration become the actual provisional patent application for electronic filing. That is, after the online working session is completed, we (for example, John Vodopia) will additionally prepare a very broad set of patent claims, characterizing the scope of the protection sought, prepare what is called an application data sheet (ADS), which is required for filing, and then file the provisional patent application and ADS electronically.

The cost fluctuates with the agreed upon amount of time you wish the firm to put in to your provisional application, tempered by the fact that for a provisional application to have value, it must be sufficiently detailed and supported such that a hypothetical person having ordinary skill in the art (PHOSITA) would understand, when considering the provisional patent application as filed as a whole, that you as the inventor “had possession of the invention” at the time of filing, as required by 35 USC 112(a) and the qualifying related case law.

While this time that we would spend online together is, of course, dependent on the complexity of the invention (computer software such as cellphone apps may take a while longer than electrical, mechanical or chemical or formulation inventions, as software-related inventions preferably include flowcharts and/or drawings highlighting the exchange of signals or data, whether internal to a host computer or network, or external relying on analog telephony or the internet. As an example, if you have done some homework before we engage, a total of 4 hours on our time can be sufficient to get the invention sufficient set to paper and filed. Please call for a quote.

Please note that after filing a provisional patent application, the inventors have one year to evolve the provisional application into a full non-provisional patent application, an international patent application filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), or directly in a few countries such that going through the trouble to file under the PCT is not financially pragmatic. Call to discuss in further detail.

Microsoft Word is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

Microsoft Word is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.