Intellectual Property

 

What do you mean by 'risk'?

 

Kevin Prince
Registered Patent Agent

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Answer:
If you are involved with a company that is manufacturing products or processes in a very complicated and specialized filed, such as nanotechnology, biomedicine, pharmaceuticals or chemicals, or may otherwise require a Ph.D. to understand, then we are not the firm for you. If your company spends millions of dollars in R&D and patent work, then you should keep your current counsel. The services you get from topnotch law firms can't be matched by us, since we do not have any Ph.D.'s on staff, nor do we plan to. You don't want to risk a $100,000,000 R&D budget (or even a $500,000 budge) on a patent written by engineers who may not specialize in your specific, narrow field.

Having said that, however, there are a lot of independent inventors and even small businesses that just cannot afford to spend $10,000+ on patents. Frankly, if that's the position you're in, you're going to need to save as much capital as possible for marketing and distribution (arguably the most difficult aspects of the inventing process). That doesn't mean the patent you'd get from us is of lower quality... please, check out our sample patents to see the quality of work we do.

That also doesn't mean that if you spent $10,000, or even $5,000 with a patent attorney you wouldn't get a more thorough and detailed patent. You very well might. But will you need that level of detail? If you think so, then by all means, please use the expensive attorney. But if you want to be "patent pending" for the least amount of money and still get an excellent patent application out of it, then we're your firm.

Patents are somewhat like insurance. You can get the expensive policy that covers everything, or you can get a basic policy that protects you, but may not have all of the bells and whistles that are possible. For example, we may not go into great detail about 20 different embodiments, and we'll certainly not go over the 20 claims that the standard filing fee covers with the patent office (except in exceptional circumstances or for additional fees, which we'll quote in advance). Our patents tend to be between 12 and 20 pages. Anything more than that, and we have to start charging extra. If you have a patent that has many different embodiments or configurations, all of which need to be shown or described, we may not be able to help you efficiently. But have a look at our samples patents to see what type of work we do and how we do it, and then decide if that works for you.

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