Provisional patent filing

Patent pending before your next demo.

Describe what you built in one paragraph. An independent USPTO-registered patent agent or attorney signs and files your provisional application under their own registration — and you walk away with a priority date, a USPTO serial number, and “patent pending” on the deck.

Order your provisional filing — $199 What a provisional is — and isn’t

Signed by a USPTO-registered practitioner

$199 flat · no filing, no charge · government fees at cost

The clock starts the moment you show it

The US is first-to-file: being first to invent counts for nothing if someone else files first. And a public disclosure — demo day, a blog post, a sales call — starts a one-year statutory bar and destroys most foreign patent rights on the spot. Miss that window and no attorney at any price can get it back.

Until now the options were a $15,000 open-ended law-firm engagement, or a do-it-yourself filing whose priority date quietly fails to support your real claims years later — exactly when the invention finally matters.

We know the $15,000 quote, and the 2 a.m. tab full of USPTO forms. You shouldn’t need to become a patent lawyer to hire the judgment of one.

Describe your invention

$199flat · no hourly billing · no filing, no charge

A full provisional specification, drafted from your one-paragraph description
The draft gets attacked before it gets signed — an adversarial review probes it for weak spots first
Signed by an independent USPTO-registered patent agent or attorney, under their own registration number
Filed with the USPTO — you’re patent pending, with a priority date and a serial number

No filing, no charge — you’re charged only when the USPTO filing receipt exists.

Government fees at cost, never marked up.

Why $199 is possible: the drafting and the attack loops are software. You pay for the one thing software can’t do — an independent practitioner’s judgment and signature.

Full utility application — $799 flat when you convert within your 12-month window — same flat terms, your provisional’s specification as the foundation

What happens after you order

01You describe itOne paragraph: what it is, what problem it solves, what’s new. Ten minutes, no legal vocabulary required.
02We draft it and attack itAn agent turns your description into a full provisional specification, then an adversarial review probes it for weak spots — before any human signs it.
03An independent practitioner decidesA USPTO-registered patent agent or attorney reads the draft, clears conflicts, and signs only if it earns their signature. They can say no — that refusal is final, and it’s why the signature means something.
04Filed. You’re patent pendingThe same practitioner files it with the USPTO — their name and registration number go on your filing. You watch every step on one page, and you get the receipt, the serial number, and your priority date.

What a provisional is — and isn’t

A provisional application buys you a priority date and 12 months of “patent pending” runway to file the utility application, with the filed specification as its foundation. In a first-to-file world, it means you were first. And when you convert, the full utility application is $799 flat — same terms, not a $15,000 engagement.

It is not itself a patent, and the USPTO never examines it. Our adversarial review is our own stress-test of the draft before a practitioner signs — it is not USPTO examination, and nothing here guarantees a patent later. Anyone who promises otherwise is selling something.

Be patent pending before you disclose

One paragraph in. A practitioner-signed provisional application on file at the USPTO. $199 flat — and if it isn’t filed, you aren’t charged.

Order your provisional filing — $199

No filing, no charge — you’re charged only when the USPTO filing receipt exists.