Five steps to a complete, high-quality application. You review and sign off before anything is filed - then we file, typically within one to two weeks of your approval (or targeted within 3 business days with rush). Here is the whole journey, including what happens after.
Your name, what you call the invention, and every scrap of documentation: disclosure write-ups, photos, CAD files, napkin sketches, lab notebooks, even video. You also pick your speed - provisional ($199), standard utility ($995), or accelerated ($1,795) - and tell us where you live, because non-U.S. residents file through an attorney.
Speak it or type it, in any of five languages. Then the precision pass: the AI rewrites your rough description in exact technical language and asks you to confirm it. That confirmed text is what makes the claims strong - and it takes about a minute.
Seconds later you're reading a real, paginated document: formal title, numbered specification paragraphs, patent figures generated from your materials with reference numerals, and the lead claims - all previewed like a Word document before you pay a dollar. A prior-art quick scan tells you what's already out there.
Your first filing sets a priority date good for 12 months worldwide. File in the US, China, Japan, India, Brazil, and the UAE directly - with government and translation fees shown up front - and add any of 150+ more via PCT. Local attorney and agent requirements are flagged per country and arranged for you.
Confirm three things every inventor must confirm, choose self-file or the $3,995 attorney review, and after your final approval your application is filed electronically. Receipt and application number arrive on filing - you are patent pending the day it's on file.
Filed. Priority date locked, receipt and application number issued. You can mark the invention patent pending.
The patent office publishes your application on its standard schedule.
The examiner responds - most applications get at least one. We translate it into plain language, with your options and deadlines.
Respond yourself, or retain a patent attorney from our network at a flat quoted fee. Most inventors do exactly that.
Claims allowed, issue fee paid, patent granted. Accelerated filings target this at ~12 months in the US.