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A patent attorney will usually charge between $8,000 and $10,000 for a patent application, but the cost can be higher. In most cases, you should budget between $15,000 and $20,000 to complete the patenting process for your invention. Previous: Why should you file a patent application? Next: Is your invention valuable?

Creating and filing a provisional patent application: $2,500. Filing the utility patent with the USPTO: $130 (cost for small entity) Non-provisional patent application based off provisional filing: $10,500. Filing fee to the USPTO for non-provisional patent application: $800 (cost for small entity)

A patent can cost from $900 for a do-it-yourself application to between $5,000 and $10,000+ with the help of patent lawyers. A patent protects an invention and the cost of the process to get the patent will depend on the type of patent (provisional, non-provisional, or utility) and the complexity of the invention.

In the case of patenting an improvement on an existing product, the most critical aspect is to prove to the USPTO (the United States Patent and Trademark Office) that your idea is something new or unobvious as compared to the existing issued patents and/or patent applications.

If existing patent A and patent B can be combined into an entirely new (i.e. "novel" and "non-obvious") use, then the combination of these patents can itself be patented. These are called "combination patents," which were once relatively simple to obtain but have since been restricted through case law.

You can't patent an existing or old product. However, you can patent an improvement to an old product or a new use for an existing or old product as long as the new use is nonobvious.