Fee Structure
A patent is issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office, granting a temporary monopoly of the invention, in exchange for a full disclosure of the invention.
A patent is issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office, granting a temporary monopoly of the invention, in exchange for a full disclosure of the invention.
Williams Intellectual Property charges flat fees for patent prosecution in the United States. We don’t add surcharges onto any government filing fees or bill you additional fees (including Office Action responses and amendments) until prosecution on your patent application is closed. Utility and Design fees include all office action responses incurred during prosecution of your patent application.
You may incur separate fees for drawings (to a drafting company, if needed), or actions subsequent closure of prosecution, such as continuing prosecution, continuing applications, requests for continued examination, continuation-in-part applications, and any interference proceedings. In most instances the fee you pay us will carry you through to issuance or abandonment of your patent application. Call us for a free consultation if you’d like more information regarding our fees.
Williams Intellectual Property Flat Fees:
Includes ALL office action responses – you pay nothing more until prosecution is closed
Utility Patent: $3500 – $7500
Provisional Patent: $1550 – $1875
Design Patent: $1250 – $1875
For patent search and all other fees, please contact our office.
Utility and Design fees include all office action responses incurred during prosecution of your patent application.
You are responsible for the USPTO fees, including the initial filing and the issue fee to issue your patent should your patent application be allowed. See list of fees here.
*A microentity is an inventor who reported gross income of less than $150,162 last year and has less than 4 patents in their name.
**A small entity is a government, a nonprofit company, or higher education institution or a company with less than 50 employees.
Utility patents offer the broadest protection for any new or useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter.
Learn moreDesign patents protect the way something looks, not the structural components informing the device.
Learn moreA provisional patent is a temporary filing, filed under 35 USC 111(b), used to secure the benefit of a filing date.
Learn morePlant patents are granted to an inventor who has invented or discovered, and asexually reproduced a distinct and new variety of plant.
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