Design Patent Preparation (micro/small) Amrita

Our Standard Design patent application legal service level is normally about $2500 (e.g., including Large Corporate clients); however, for micro/small entities (< 20 employees, or individuals) we offer a 50% reduction down to a “Good Quality” $999 flat fee for your product design, which is our fee to legally prepare, file, and manage the filing process for each case.  This includes a standard set of formal drawings to cover one invention/product version, done to strict USPTO legal standards.  That is for our “Good” Quality level.  We offer higher (Top) and lower (Basic) quality Design Patent legal work levels, which micro/small entity fee is currently $1500 for “Top”, and $750 for “Basic”.

For some more general Design patent application overview information, see our page here:
https://bayareaip.com/service-details/8 

 

That is, for those seeking the best scope/level of product protection, we have a “Top” quality level for $1500 if you are interested.

 

In our “Basic” service level, we pretty much capture your submitted product images into valid Design patent drawings principally drawn to your exact product. 

 

In our standard “Good” service level, we make a moderate “low hanging fruit” effort to broaden the scope/strength of your Design Patent towards avoiding obvious/common “design-around” pitfalls and loopholes. 

 

In our “Top” quality level legal drafting work more skilled members of our technical and legal team get involved in efforts towards sizing up and structuring and establishing the broadest scope of protection in the Design Patent.  In the “Top” level typical issues, considered and worked upon include::

·         identifying portion(s) or feature(s) of the product that are not particularly novel or important to the design, and, thus, should not be claimed (i.e., required to be in any infringing product), claiming the more novel features.  

·         we are available without extra charge to help you sort out simple situations if you have more than one product version (e.g., you have two or more product appearances/shaping), thus most likely two or more inventions may exist in your system design.

·         we are available without extra charge to help you sort out simple situations where you may have a product with separate (potentially independent) parts and whether or not those are intended to limit the design or if they should not be claimed.

In this way, this “Top” level generally provides much more protection, especially in situations where competitors make changes to the other, less novel portions, or seek to knock-off unclaimed/covered independent parts/designs that you may have overlooked.

NOTICE: For a U.S. design patent application (similar to a Utility patent application) there is international/foreign Design patent protection available under the relatively new Hague convention, or you may obtain foreign protection by filing patent applications directly in your countries of interest.  To claim priority to a national (e.g., USA) design patent application, you must file corresponding Hague international or foreign patent applications within six months from the filing date of your national (e.g., USA) design patent application; otherwise, it will get the date of filing at the international or foreign Bureau(s).  That said, so long as your product design has not ever been published/made public, generally speaking, you may apply for international or direct foreign design patent application which will get the date of filing it.  If the product design was over previously published then it would be used as prior art against your new foreign/international design plan application(s).  Note that once the design patent issues then it is promptly published and that would result in your losing any foreign design patent rights that were not established before such publication. Please contact us for more about establishing your foreign/international design patent rights if you are so interested.