Pay Online
As an advantage to our customers we allow you to pay your legal bill online:
For your payment Convience
All major credit cards accepted, including American Express, Visa, Mastercard and Discover. We also accept checks by phone or fax. We also accept Paypal.
Patents:
Patent Searches: $750 flat fee, results in one week. Price includes 20 patents uncovered during search. If more than 20 patents were uncovered, we charge $175 extra per grouping of 10 patents
Patent Applications: $2,200 legal fees, plus $500 USPTO filing fee for a simple mechanical invention 20 pages or less. More complex applications are billed at $175 for each page in length over 20 pages.
The total cost of your patent cannot be predicted in advance because of our limited control over what the examiner will find to be acceptable or objectionable in your patent application. During the course of prosecution of your patent application you should expect to receive at least one to two Office Actions from the patent office. We generally charge approximately $1600 to respond to each office action. Further there is a $1000 issue fee which must be paid within three months after your patent application has been approved. Our best estimate of the total cost to receive your patent registration is $8,000 to $10,000 over the course of about 5 years. Please budget accordingly before filing your patent application. Patents are not guaranteed to make money or be used as a "get rich quick scheme".
Copyrights:
Preparing Copyright Application:
$250, plus filing fee of $45
Notes:
Currently our charges are:*
JMD: $200/hour
VW: $175/hour
EM: $175/hour
*Complex Litigation may be billed at higher rates
Simple Patent and Trademark prosecution will be billed at $150/hour
All of our fees are subject to change upon 30 days written notice.
We do not generally charge for short email questions or short phone calls that only require a simple answer. From time to time, we do give our clients courtesy credits for work performed, which includes these short emails and phone calls. However, courtesy credits may be revoked at anytime for failure to pay bills promptly (we allow 30 days from invoice date), or for any other behavior which is adverse to a positive attorney client relationship. Courtesy credits are only final and effective at the time of payment.
Please note that all of the above fees are flat fees and do not include any subsequent prosecution work. After your patent, trademark or copyright application has been filed, you will be billed at our normal hourly rates for all work performed on your file. Billings continue until the USPTO issues a formal Notice of Revocation of Power of Attorney which you must request from them in writing.