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Example - Part 1

Let's look at an example senario of Application Facilitation at work. This scenario is for a utility patent application.

First, understand the Application Stage & Issuance Stage. Application Stage includes services to draft a patent application and submit it to the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO). After submission, your application is looked over by examiners working at the USPTO. If they approve your patent application, you go to the Issuance Stage. Issuance Stage includes services that are required to retrieve your granted patent from the USPTO. Fees in the Issuance Stage are due if, and only if, your patent application is approved.

The average fee for a patent firm to draft and file a utility patent application in 2007 was over $8,000 in the Application Stage.

In this typical example, you are charged $8,000 by a patent firm in the Application Stage (drafting and filing patent application). If your patent is approved and issued by the USPTO, you are charged $2,000 in the Issuance Stage by the patent firm. You had to pay the $8,000 in the Application Stage regardless of if your patent is ultimately approved by the USPTO. Furthermore, the $8,000 is likely a variable amount based on the amount of hours the firm actually used to draft your application. You have to make a large upfront investment with an uncertain total cost. This may seem like a big risk to take.

First, through connection with our preferred patent firms, Thoughts to Paper gets you lower service fees. The average patent application may now range from $4,000 to $6,000.

Next, Thoughts to Paper fixates service fees for you. For most inventions not highly complex or technical, Thoughts to Paper can fixate the Application Stage fees to $4,495. Thoughts to Paper does this by paying the variable amount that is billed by the patent firm, and having you pay Thoughts to Paper the pre-determined fixated amount.

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