We can help you decide whether you need a Provisional Patent or a Non-Provisional Patent.
Provisional Patents are good for one year only. Non-provisional Patents are good for 20 years. A Provisional Patent comes before a Non-Provisional Patent. You're not required to get a Provisional Patent, but it essentially extends the term of your patent one year. Plus, Provisional Patents cost less than half of a Non-Provisional Patent.
Perhaps our greatest value is that we are more than just lawyers: We're engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs, too.
William Lovin & Assoc., PLLC (WL&A) has decades of experience in numerous inventive fields. Our associates have deep backgrounds in software, telecommunications, electrical engineering, Internet technology, environmental technology, marine technology, and manufacturing.
We understand how to build a patent prosecution strategy that is tailored to where you are now and yet scalable as you grow. We regularly work with our clients as a sounding board when assessing new products, services, or development efforts. Our deep understanding of the kinds of technology our clients routinely utilize allows us to build strong patents.
We work with our clients to devise effective strategies, from assessing the need for patent protection through defending patents in court. Our patent practice covers all areas of patent law, including:
Flat-rate patent services. You pay one time, we do all the work! No matter how long it takes!1
Patent Searches2
Provisional and Non-Provisional Patents2
Design Patents
*All rates are for mechanical inventions of minimal complexity. All applications have filing fees which are additional and change over time.
1Flat-rate services are of limited scope and comprise specific functions and activities. Individual flat-rate services are only discreet parts of the patent prosecution process and the client must ensure that the services WLA renders fit into the client's overall patent prosecution strategy. Contact us for further information before considering these limited scope assignments.
2Patents for electrical/electronic inventions and software/business methods are inherently more complex and thus priced higher. Please contact us for details.
3Non-Provisional Patents will have additional fees. For example, if a Non-Provisional Patent is granted there will be an issue fee that must be paid. Also, most Non-Provisional Patents have at least one Office Action which much be responded to. Please contact us for details.
For a limited time, WL&A will rebate the professional fee associated with preparing and filing a non-commercial micro entity's provisional patent application (excluding USPTO fees) if, within a year, the micro entity files a subsequent non-provisional patent application taking benefit of the earlier filed provisional patent application. This rebate will be applied as a reduction in the professional fee associated with the preparation and filing of the subsequent non-provisional application. Offer available only to new non-commercial clients filing as micro entities. Only one rebate per new client, please.
Other terms and conditions apply, please contact us for further details.
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