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Once your patent application has been approved by the USPTO, you'll receive a Notice of Allowance. Then, you must pay your issue fee before subsequently receiving your Issue Notification. The patent certificate with the USPTO seal will be mailed on the issue date.

How to get a patent in 8 steps Determine if patent protection is appropriate. ... Determine if your invention is patentable. ... Conduct a patent search. ... Determine what kind of patent you need. ... Prepare to submit your application. ... Submit your application. ... Work with your patent examiner. ... Get approved and pay final fees.

Look for a patent number on the product or packaging. Many companies print patent document numbers on their products as public notification of their patent rights. Use the patent number to search and retrieve a copy of the patent from a patent database. Identify the company that makes (or made) the product.

Patent applications: the three criteria Novelty. This means that your invention must not have been made public ? not even by yourself ? before the date of the application. Inventive step. This means that your product or process must be an inventive solution. ... Industrial applicability.

The Patent Pro Bono Program attempts to match inventors with registered patent agents or patent attorneys. These practitioners volunteer their time without charging the inventor. However, the inventor still must pay all fees that are required by the USPTO; these cannot be paid by the practitioner.

The cheapest way to get "Patent Pending" status is to file a provisional patent application. All that is required is a detailed description of the invention, an informal drawing, and a synopsis of how you came up with the idea. For small entities, the application fee is $130 and for large companies it is $260.