# Patent pending before your next demo. > Provisional patent filing. Describe your invention in one paragraph. An independent USPTO-registered patent agent or attorney signs your provisional application and files it. [Order your provisional, $199](https://patent.click/order) ## 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. - **Drafted.** A first draft from your paragraph, for review. - **Attacked.** An adversarial review probes it before signing. - **Signed.** By an independent USPTO-registered practitioner. - **Filed.** At the USPTO, with your priority date on record. - Provisional application: $199 flat. - USPTO filing fee, at cost: $65 (micro entity), $130 (small entity), $325 (large entity). - No filing, no charge: you are charged only once the USPTO’s electronic acknowledgement receipt exists. - USPTO fees for the utility application are separate, also at cost. ## From paragraph to patent pending. Four steps, each one shown on your order page as it happens. 1. **You describe it.** One paragraph: what it is, and what makes it new. 2. **A first draft.** Software prepares it for the practitioner to review. 3. **The draft gets attacked.** An adversarial review hunts for weak spots first. 4. **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. - **One link.** The page you land on after ordering is your order. - **Every step timed.** Each step shows when it finished, through the receipt. - **The receipt, kept.** The USPTO receipt stays on the page, with your number. ## 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 date**: Your filing date, on record at the USPTO from day one. - It is **twelve months**: File the utility application within 12 months. - It is **patent pending**: Say it on the deck and the product from filing day. - It isn’t **a patent**: Never examined by the USPTO; it expires in 12 months. - It isn’t **a guarantee**: Nobody can promise a patent. Distrust anyone who does. - It isn’t **retroactive**: Its 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 ### 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. --- patent.click is in preview: orders are recorded, but nothing is filed with the USPTO or charged yet. patent.click is not a law firm. Nothing here is legal advice. patent.click is not an invention promoter: it prepares and files applications through independent registered practitioners and does not offer to develop or market inventions, so the 35 U.S.C. § 297 disclosure does not apply. © 2026 patent.click, by [Marlow](https://marlow.legal). Built on [api.lawyer](https://api.lawyer).