Patents

The first inventor to file gets the patent. Even if you invented it first.

A U.S. patent lets you stop everyone else from making, using, or selling what you invented. It goes to the first inventor to file, so timing matters as much as the prototyping.

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Two kinds of patents, two kinds of applications

Utility patents

These protect how something works and how it’s made: processes, machines, manufactured articles, compositions. The term runs twenty years from the filing date.

Design patents

These protect how something looks. The term runs fifteen years from the issue date. Often the right tool for consumer products where the shape is your real identifying brand.

Provisional applications

Fast and inexpensive. We use one to lock in a filing date for twelve months while you refine the invention or test the market. It isn’t examined, and it must be followed by a non-provisional to keep the protection.

Non-provisional applications

The full application: claims, drawings, and a written description of your invention, all for an examiner to scrutinize. This is the filing that ultimately grows up to become a patent.

How we work

John Gugliotta has prosecuted patents since 1993 across chemical, pharmaceutical, mechanical, medical, electronic, and business-method subject matter. He’s a chemical engineer by training, which means the guy writing your claims understands the thing he’s describing.

Patent work is priced flat wherever it can be. After an initial consultation, you get a written quote covering the drafting, the drawings, and the filing. USPTO fees are itemized separately. If the invention isn’t a good candidate for a patent, we’ll tell you that too, and what to do instead.

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