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$30,000? Isn't the filing fee around a few hundred dollars . I guess they have some big lawyer fees. http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee2009septem
by waivej 16y ago
$30,000? Isn't the filing fee around a few hundred dollars . I guess they have some big lawyer fees.
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee2009september15.htm#patapp http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee2009september1...
- kujhygtfghj 16y agoI have spent an hour on the phone almost everyday for a few weeks talking to our patent lawyer, then there are all the extra hours of searches they bill me for. This is for a complex piece of opto-electronics, explaining to the lawyer (who has a physics degree) exactly why this is different to the dozens of similar patents is expensive - but a different bit of wording now can be important when I'm being sued by IBM or Sony in a few years.
- dctoedt 16y agoYour lawyer might want to look at a training "video" I put together. It's a PDF of a series of PowerPoint slides with few words and lots of pictures. It's designed to be skimmed rapidly by a reader, and/or to accompany a classroom-type discussion. The PDF explains how an inventor and lawyer can use something like extreme programming (XP) techniques to complete most of the work of drafting and reviewing a patent application in one sitting. http://www.ontechnologylaw.com/docs/ToedtOneAndDoneInventorInterviewApproach2007-06-22.pdf http://www.ontechnologylaw.com/docs/ToedtOneAndDoneInventorI...
- pontifier 16y agoI'm up to about $15k out of pocket on mine... it costs me about $1800 every time the patent comes back from the examiner and the lawyers need to change something. This has happened 3 times so far. I'm 4 1/2 years into the process and still no patent :(