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Leadership
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Nadya Reingand
Nadya Reingand, PhD is the Founder and the President of Patent Hatchery LLC; she holds a PhD in Optoelectronics from St. Petersburg University with 15 years of experience working in high tech R&D, author of many scientific papers and patents of her own. Nadya is licensed to practice Patent Law before US Patent Office. She has filed and prosecuted over 300 patent applications. Her book “Intellectual Property...
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US Nonprovisional Patent Application
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In the US, there are three types of patents: utility, design and plant patents. The most common is utility patent, which is for useful invention. The requirements for the invention patentability include novelty, non-obviousness and utility of the invention. Patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by the state to the inventor or...
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PCT PROCESS: INTERNATIONAL PATENT APPLICATION
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Modern global economy and markets often require protection of your idea in many countries. The reason for that is the fact that patents are geographically limited, they are valid only in particular country. How to obtain protection in a foreign country? A common way of pursuing patent rights outside your home country is to...
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Patent procedure
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  1. Prepare the description of your invention ( with drawings)
  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; (b) performing patent search and patentability analysis; (c) filing U.S. nonprovisional application; (d) filing PCT application; (e) filing National stage for your PCT application; (f) filing design...
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USPTO FEES: US NATIONAL APPLICATION
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Typically, when submitting the new utility patent application we pay the following fees (as of April 8, 2015): the basic filing fee $70 the search fee $300 the examination fee $370 Total: $740 This fees correspond to individual inventors or companies with less than 500 employees. The status of such applicant is called “small entity”. Besides the small entity...
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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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