The Process
Meticulous documentation of the timeline of your invention's development will allow you to obtain the earliest possible patent filing date. The more detailed your notes on the subject are, the better.

Following a preliminary patentability study, Patents-Etcetera will work with you to draft the claims and specification of your patent application and will then carefully search the patent applications and patents published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the international Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). Any relevant non-patent publications will also be evaluated.

After the detailed prior art search, your new claims will then be compared with any similar claims found in order determine if your proposed new invention meets the standards of novelty and non-obviousness. Any needed modification to the claims or specification will be made at this time to define your invention as being patentable over the prior art.

Once you have decided which type of patent application best meets your needs, a provisional application or a nonprovisional application, Patents-Etcetera will do everything necessary for you to obtain the most comprehensive patent protection for your invention in a most reasonable amount of time, at a most reasonable cost.