Provisional patent application

Get Patent Pending.
Starting at $199.

Protect your filing date while you build, test, pitch and decide what comes next. Pax keeps the 12-month conversion window visible from day one.

  • Establish an early U.S. filing date
  • Keep developing during the 12-month period
  • Preview the application before payment

A provisional application is not examined and must be followed by a timely nonprovisional filing to preserve its benefit.

Pax holding a 12-month calendar for the provisional conversion window
$199Low-friction first filing
12 monthsBuild, test and decide
Preview firstReview before payment
Deadline trackedConversion remains visible

A visible 12-month runway

Use the provisional period to create better information

The filing date is the beginning of a decision cycle. Pax helps frame the milestones that determine whether and how to convert.

  1. Month 0File provisional
  2. Month 3Prototype and test
  3. Month 6Customer and partner feedback
  4. Month 9Plan utility or PCT path
  5. Month 12Convert before deadline

What Pax helps you capture

A provisional that describes more than the headline idea

The intake focuses on how the invention works, how its parts relate and what alternatives may matter later.

Describe naturally

Speak or type the invention in your own words, then upload supporting materials.

Pax finds the gaps

Focused questions surface components, steps, variations and connections.

Review the filing

Read the prepared provisional before payment and explicit filing approval.

Start small, preserve options

Begin with the filing date, then choose the next path

PatentExpress is designed to keep the conversion and international deadlines attached to the filing.

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Provisional

$199

Establish a filing date while you build.

  • 12-month priority window
  • Preview before payment
Start provisional

Standard utility

$995

Convert into a complete utility application.

  • Claims, specification and figures
  • Conversion deadline support
Plan utility

PCT attachment

$1,995

International option during the priority window.

  • Keeps 150+ countries open
  • Partner counsel as required
Explore PCT

Attorney review

$3,995

Flat-fee attorney review option.

  • Limited-scope engagement
  • Legal advice where engaged
Add review
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Your PatentExpress guide. I ask focused questions, show progress, and keep approval in your hands.

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Structured drafting in validated stages.

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Transparent

Read the application before paying.

Approval-gated

Nothing is filed until you approve.

Straight answers

Questions about provisional applications

No. It is not examined and does not itself mature into a patent. A timely nonprovisional application is generally required to preserve the filing benefit.

Secure the filing date, then keep building

Start with a prepared provisional and keep the next deadline visible instead of letting the 12-month window disappear.

PatentExpress.AI is a patent-application preparation and filing platform associated with LegalForce RAPC Worldwide, P.C. Self-help plans do not create an attorney-client relationship unless a separate engagement is accepted. Attorney review is included only where expressly stated. Government fees are separate and charged at cost. Filing an application does not guarantee that a patent will issue.