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PATENT PROSECUTION HIGHWAY (PPH) PROGRAM
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PATENT PROSECUTION HIGHWAY (PPH) PROGRAM

USPTO and a number of Patent Offices of various countries signed an agreement, which allows using the expert decision on patentability from the foreign country as a base for making decision on the idea patentability in USA. The PPH procedure includes filing a petition together with other documents for the Patent Prosecution Highway program. The petition includes
  1. a request...
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PATENT ISSUE
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When the patent application is allowed, we submit the issue fee and accompanying documents. Current fee for the patent issue is $480 for small entity (individual inventors or company less than 500 employees). When we receive the Patent Certificate, we’ll send it to the patent owners free of charge by regular mail.

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PATENT MAINTENANCE
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koleco2 There are no annuity fees for patent or patent application in United States.

The maintenance fees are paid on the 4th, 8th, and 12th years of patent live. The corresponding fees are the following (as of today, April 9, 2015): $800, $1800, $3700 for small entity (individual inventors or companies less than...
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RESTRICTION REQUIREMENT
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RESTRICTION REQUIREMENT In many case we get restriction requirement as a first Office Action. This means that the examiner found more than one invention in the claims of your patent application, and you have to choose only one for further examination. Response to this Office Action has to be submitted. In any case – if...
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OFFICE ACTION RESPONSE
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Only less than 5% of US patent application get allowance right away after their first examination. In majority of the case we receive a rejection as a first Office Action. After received a non-final rejection, we prepare the response with the arguments why the prior art listed by the examiner does not disclosed the claimed invention. At...
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Patent procedure
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  1. Prepare the description of your invention ( with drawings) DESCRIPTION OF YOUR INVENTION
  2. Discuss your material with Patent Hatchery ( we can sign NDA if needed, however our profession assumes confidentiality)
  3. Develop strategy, which includes
(a) filing/not filing U.S. provisional application; prov-application (b) performing patent search and patentability analysis; PATENT SEARCH (c) filing U.S. nonprovisional...
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