Robert E Paulson, Patent Attorney

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Paulson Patent and Trademark Legal Services provides the following legal services at a fixed charge, which includes filing of the necessary document (s) with the USPTO, either by E-filing or paper filing, and providing you with notification of the filing particulars and copies of all documents.

           

All other attorney fee charges will be based upon a specific price quote from us for specific services you have requested. In general, our price quote will be based on a targeted hourly rate of $300. We will  not proceed with any work on your behalf until we have reached agreement on the services to be  performed and the quoted attorney fee.

 

Please be aware that the USPTO imposes additional fees for many of its operations, e.g., filing of a patent or trademark application; issuance of the patent or registration of the mark; extensions of time for response to Office Actions; a Prior Art Search fee; an Examination fee; filing a Request for Reexamination of a pending patent application or Reissue of an issued patent. In addition, after a patent has issued,  periodic maintenance fees are imposed and must be paid  in order to maintain enforceability of the patent for its full term.

 

These USPTO fees are not  included in either the following fixed rate attorney fees or in any specific price quote for attorney charges.  In either case, however, we will advise you in advance of the USPTO fee obligations.  In most cases, there will be other out-of-pocket expenses which are not included in our attorney fee, e.g., computer legal research charges ("Lexis"), patent draftsman charges, professional prior art search charges. We also will advise you in advance the estimated amount of these other expenses.

 

FIXED RATE PATENT SERVICES

 

 

 

 

Analysis of known Prior Art / Patentable

Novelty Opinion 

$1200

 

 

 

 

Provisional utility patent application

 (medium complexity)

$4500
 

 

 
 

Final utility patent application

(medium complexity) (no provisional)

$7500   
 

 

 
 

Response to Office Action w/arguments          distinguishing prior art (medium complexity)

and editing/rewriting claims                     

$1800
     
 

Affidavit alleging secondary fact(s) supporting nonobviousness of claimed invention

$2000
 

 

 
 

Patent validity / invalidity opinion

(medium complexity)

$5000
 

 

 

 

Patent infringement /  noninfringement opinion

(medium complexity)

$5000

 

 

 
 

Patent infringement damages opinion

(medium complexity of issues)  

$2000
 

 

 
 

Patent license agreement (first draft)

$1500
 

 

 
 

Employment Agreement clauses re invention

rights and post-employment restrictions

$ 900
 

 

 
FIXED RATE TRADEMARK SERVICES  
 

 

 
 

Preparation / filing of basic trademark

application w/ actual or intended use

$300
 

 

 
 

Amendment to allege actual use

$300
 

 

 
 

Amendment to claim Secondary Meaning

w/ supporting Affidavit

$1200
 

 

 
 

Section 8 Affidavit

$300
 

 

 
 

Section 15 Affidavit

$300
 

 

 
 

Response to Office Action w/arguments distinguishing prior trademark usages       

$ 1200
 

 

 
 

Trademark License Agreement (first draft)

$1500