We start by doing a patent search, to see whether your invention is truly new and patentable. But our patent search service isn’t like other patent searches- we do a ‘claim-based’ patent search, mimicking an official patent office search. What this means is we do a ‘feature-by-feature‘ patent search, and if your overall invention concept isn’t new, we search the next most important features, to see if you can still get important patent protection on any of them. This can lead to far more precise feedback from your patent search and that’s why so many inventors choose our patent search service over any other company’s.

If the patent search suggests you could get important patent protection, we draft and file a provisional patent application for you, making sure to include what came back clear from your patent search. This gets you an official patent application number and 12 months patent pending status, booking your seat to be the first to patent your invention before anyone else can.

In this step, we draft and file a full non-provisional patent application for you. This is the patent application that gets searched and examined at the patent office and could lead to you getting your patent granted. But we have a special way of doing this that can get your patent office results in as quick as 2-3 weeks instead of 2-3 years.

And if your patent gets allowed by the patent office, we then use something called the Patent Prosecution Highway to get you free acceleration of your patent processing around the world, including US, Canadian, and Australian patent protection, plus many other countries if you want, including Japan and China!

(American patent office results alone are accelerated from 1-3 years to an average of 2-6 months to get results).