Good article and the author makes some great points about whether or not you get funded based on patent filings. I’m curious though, in the article the author

Good article and the author makes some great points about whether or not you get funded based on patent filings. I’m curious though, in the article the author mentions an “s-curve” relating to patent costs and protection said costs are likely to yield, but no actual numbers are provided. The concept makes perfect sense, but for those of us who’ve never filled a patent before, what’s a reasonable range that would generally fall into the sweet spot in the graph? Obviously it depends on the thing being patented, but some general range would be nice as a point of reference. Are we talking $10k - $30k roughly? Higher?