Unlike other law firms, our flat fees include the writing of the application, drawings and arguments up to the first of either a final rejection or allowance. Don’t be caught up in low upfront fees that balloon as the process goes forward. Kaufhold and Dix offers affordable IP protection for all your needs to help you budget your legal fees in a cost effective manner.
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Don’t be fooled by low flat fee offerings for filing a patent application. At Kaufhold & Dix Patent Law, you are provided a flat fee upfront that covers the entire patent application process from the time of filing until the resolution of your case (either an allowance or final rejection).
Read all of the associated costs of other flat fee firms and often you will find that you will be billed separately for different aspects including hundreds of dollars for patent drawings as well as several thousand dollars for required responses to office actions (rejections) from the patent office. Many times, the person offering the flat fee will not even mention what the exact charges are for the drawings and office action replies in advance. You might even be charged handling fees to simply forward issue fees to the Patent Office. In the end the total cost for the legal fees of a simple invention can be at least $15,000 and for anything even remotely complex will often be more than $20,000. We include all of our services in a complete service flat fee agreed upon before work starts, and there are no hidden costs.
Further, we highly advise against using services that provide low cost “assistance” where you are actually the one writing the application with presumed oversight by a third party not putting their contact information on your application filing. If they are not willing to tell the USPTO they represent you, then they are not standing behind their work. In 20+ years of assisting clients, we have seen filings that are fatally flawed costing the inventor not only time and money, but the loss of patent rights due to statutory time restrictions because they relied upon an insufficient filing.
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The search includes finding inventions similar to yours found in printed matter of the US and foreign patent offices as well as a simple search of websites. The search usually includes 10-15 prior art references and the opinion provides an analysis of those references with respect to your invention. This process will give you the confidence that your invention is potentially patentable before you spend funds on further development or the protecting of your idea. The fees for the search and opinion may be varied after the consultation to account for highly technical inventions or those having multiple embodiments.