affordable, experienced patent attorney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania For Sale
Patent attorney in practice 20 years now provides prior art searches for inventors considering filing a patent application. Don't skip the most important step in the patent process: finding earlier patents and other references that will be used against you by a patent examiner. The purpose of a patent search is to help you understand the patent landscape BEFORE your patent application is drafted. A high-quality search will give you the information you need to decide whether or not to file an application, and will also guide your patent attorney to draft proper claims and description to avoid what is already known and discoverable by an examiner at the patent office.
OUR FIRST CONSULTATION IS FREE. During our initial conversation, I will take my best shot at a preliminary search before any fees are collected. If the preliminary search yields no fatal results, we can then move forward with the search. At the conclusion of the search, I will provide a detailed search report, copies of all references contained in the report. Also included is a second consultation in which we go over the results together to identify areas of patentability and any challenges presented by the references.
WHY CHOOSE ME? My searches are verifiable and are performed by an experienced patent attorney. Other search reports simply contain a list of patents but there is no way to judge quality because there is no indication of how the search was performed. My search reports include a listing of all search strings used, along with a mapping of relevant results to each search string used. This makes my search report re-usable. My search report shows you how to run my search strings so that you can refresh your search results over time to see if any new references appear.
I am also available to draft and prosecute patent applications before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Software and internet-related inventions are my strong suit. I hold two computer science degrees and worked for years as a software developer before becoming a patent attorney. For any inventor who already has obtained a search report, I will evaluate your search report for free and give you an opinion as to its quality and accuracy.