Electronic Filing Of Provisional Patent
Question: Cost of filing patent if it fails?
I am trying to gauge the cost of failure. Say you file a non-provisional patent and it is not granted. Not including attorney fees, how much would it cost you? I see on the USPTO fee page that the cost for filing a utility patent is $82 for electronic filing; obviously I would have to pay that. I also see a utility search fee of $270 and a utility examination fee of $110. I would have to pay those too, right? Anything else? Thanks.
Answer: Many of my clients had to pay me, the patent attorney, upward of $5,000 to just handle all the correspondence (drafting the application, filing, documentation, rejections, amendments, blah blah blah), all for the privilege of claiming “patent pending”. If you do it yourself you have nobody to blame but yourself when it “fails” to be issued. Plus, you save the issuance fees and the maintenance fees.
If you file and then abandon the application, you’ve only lost the filing fee.
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Draft and filing provisional patent applications that will stand up to litigation
