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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.

Method 1: Write and file your own patent application (the cheapest way) - total cost about $1,000 for most inventors to get an issued patent (USPTO government fees only). A provisional type application is only about $150 to file but this only stays pending for 12 months and is only a 'placeholder' type application.

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?

An application data sheet is a document submitted by the applicant to the USPTO listing the bibliographic data of the patent application. The bibliographic data includes: Header Information. Inventor Information. Correspondence Information.

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) provides PATENTSCOPE ® Search Service, which features a full-text search of published international patent applications and machine translations for some documents as well as a list of international patent databases.

Function & Data The amount of data will depend on the prior art in your field. The more prior art there is, the more data/disclosure you will need in order to prove that your invention has not been created before. If your invention is completely unprecedented, you might not need any data, but this case is very rare.