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
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Analysis of known Prior Art / Patentable
Novelty Opinion |
$1200 |
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Provisional utility
patent application
(medium
complexity) |
$4500 |
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Final utility patent
application
(medium complexity)
(no provisional) |
$7500 |
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Response to Office
Action w/arguments distinguishing
prior art (medium complexity)
and editing/rewriting
claims |
$1800 |
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Affidavit alleging
secondary fact(s) supporting nonobviousness
of claimed invention |
$2000 |
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Patent validity /
invalidity opinion
(medium complexity)
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$5000 |
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Patent infringement /
noninfringement opinion
(medium complexity) |
$5000 |
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Patent infringement
damages opinion
(medium complexity of
issues) |
$2000 |
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Patent license
agreement (first draft) |
$1500 |
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Employment Agreement
clauses re invention
rights and
post-employment restrictions |
$ 900 |
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FIXED RATE TRADEMARK
SERVICES |
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Preparation / filing of basic trademark
application w/ actual
or intended use |
$300 |
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Amendment to allege
actual use |
$300 |
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Amendment to claim
Secondary Meaning
w/ supporting
Affidavit |
$1200 |
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Section 8 Affidavit |
$300 |
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Section 15 Affidavit |
$300 |
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Response to Office
Action w/arguments distinguishing prior
trademark usages |
$ 1200 |
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Trademark License
Agreement (first draft) |
$1500 |
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