Provisional patent filing
Patent pending before your next demo.
Describe your invention in one paragraph. An independent USPTO-registered patent agent or attorney signs your provisional application and files it.
File before you show it.
The US is first-inventor-to-file, so the date that counts is your filing date. Get it on record before the demo, the post or the pitch.
One price, posted up front.
Software prepares a first draft and runs the attack pass. You pay for what software can’t do: a practitioner’s judgment and signature.
Included in $199
- DraftedA first draft from your paragraph, for review
- AttackedAn adversarial review probes it before signing
- SignedBy an independent USPTO-registered practitioner
- FiledAt the USPTO, with your priority date on record
- Provisional application flat
- $199
- USPTO filing fee at cost
- $65$130$325
- Due when it’s filed
- $264$329$524
No filing, no charge. You are charged only once the USPTO’s electronic acknowledgement receipt exists.
- Later: utility conversion flat, within 12 months
- $799
USPTO fees for the utility application are separate, also at cost. See pricingUSPTO fees
From paragraph to patent pending.
Four steps, each one shown on your order page as it happens.
You describe it
One paragraph: what it is, and what makes it new.
A first draft
Software prepares it for the practitioner to review.
The draft gets attacked
An adversarial review hunts for weak spots first.
A practitioner signs
They sign under their own registration, then file.
A signature that can say no.
Every filing is signed by an independent USPTO-registered patent agent or attorney, under their own registration. If the draft doesn’t earn it, they refuse.
Signs and files
Their name and registration number go on your application.
Declines
Their judgment is final. Nothing is filed and nothing is charged.
Every step, one private link.
No account and no password. Your order lives at one link, and the page moves as the work does.
The order page on a phone, showing the USPTO receipt: application number 00/514,207, filed Oct 14, 2026.
What a provisional is, and isn’t.
A provisional buys you a priority date and twelve months. It is not a patent, and nobody can promise one.
It is
- A priority dateYour filing date, on record at the USPTO from day one.
- Twelve monthsFile the utility application within 12 months.
- Patent pendingSay it on the deck and the product from filing day.
It isn’t
- A patentNever examined by the USPTO; it expires in 12 months.
- A guaranteeNobody can promise a patent. Distrust anyone who does.
- RetroactiveIts priority date is its filing date. Nothing earlier counts.
Under the America Invents Act the US is first-inventor-to-file. Your own public disclosure starts a one-year grace period in the US under 35 U.S.C. 102(b)(1)(A); many other patent offices, including Europe’s and China’s, have no grace period for a demo or a post.
Questions
Six things founders ask before they order.
What do I get for $199?
A provisional application, reviewed, signed and filed with the USPTO by an independent registered practitioner. Software prepares their first draft from your paragraph and attacks it before they sign. You get the USPTO receipt, your application number and your priority date.
When am I charged?
Only once the USPTO’s electronic acknowledgement receipt exists. The USPTO’s own filing fee is passed through at cost: $65 for a micro entity, $130 for a small entity, $325 otherwise.
Who signs my application?
An independent USPTO-registered patent agent or attorney, under their own registration number. They can decline to sign. If they do, nothing is filed and you are not charged.
Is patent.click a law firm?
No. Software prepares a first draft for the practitioner, who reviews it, signs it and files it. The legal work is the independent practitioner’s.
Is a provisional a patent?
No. The USPTO never examines it, and it expires after 12 months. It gives you a priority date and the right to say patent pending while you prepare the utility application.
What happens after 12 months?
To keep your priority date, file a utility application within the 12 months. Converting yours is $799 flat, with USPTO fees at cost.
Be patent pending before you disclose.
One paragraph in. A practitioner-signed provisional on file at the USPTO.