Lawrence Husick, Esq.
Laurence Weinberger, Esq.
Adam Garson, Esq.
Ash Tankha, Esq.
Joshua Waterston, Esq.

Lipton, Weinberger & Husick provides patent and trademark legal services nationwide. We also provide patent and trademark filing services in foreign countries through our foreignassociates. Our services include patent searches, patent application drafting and filing, patent application prosecution, trademark searches, trademark filing, trademark application prosecution and copyright registration. Our patent attorney also files international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, and international trademark applications under the Madrid Protocol though the World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

If you would like to file a patent application for your idea, listed below are the steps that we follow for drafting and filing your patent application with the U.S.PTO:

Step 1: Please e-mail your name and contact information to us at ash@ipprocurement.com, and we will send you a non-disclosure agreement and a fee agreement that recites our flat fee for filing a patent application.

Step 2: If you wish to proceed, please download, sign and return the NDA and fee agreement. We will then countersign the agreements and e-mail them back to you. You may then send us a description of your inventive concept to allow us to conduct a prior art search to determine if the inventive concept is new.

Step 3: If the inventive concept is new, you can instruct us to file either a provisional patent application, or, to file a regular non-provisional patent application both of which allow you to mark your product "patent pending".

A provisional application is generally filed if your funding is limited at this point, or if you wish to check out the market regarding the marketability of your product. After a provisional patent application is filed, you may contact appropriate persons to provide funding for filing a non-provisional patent application and for commercializing your product.

A provisional application allows you to mark your product "Patent Pending" and provides patent pending protection for one (1) year. A provisional application must be rolled over to a regular, non-provisional application before the end of the one year period if the inventor needs protection beyond the one year period.

Alternatively, you may directly file a regular, non-provisional patent application. A regular, non-provisional patent application entitles the applicant to 20 years patent protection from the date of filing if the application is allowed and the patent granted by the U.S.PTO.

You may pay by check, or by credit card with an additional 2% credit card processing fee, or, on a monthly installment plan with no interest. Step 4: We will send you the draft of the patent application for your review and edit. Your changes will then be incorporated in the patent application. Once you approve the patent application for filing, the application will be filed with the U.S.PTO.

Additional information on the patent filing process is provided on our website www.ipprocure.com; on the home page click on "patent application filing process". Representative patents applications that we have filed are listed on the link "our granted and published patents". If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us by e-mail at: ash@ipprocurement.com, or by phone at: 1-866-387-5386.