Design:  Design patents may be granted to anyone who invents a new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture.  We offer high quality illustrations to the cover the appearance of your novel item.  Design patent pricing starting at

Provisional:  A provisional application for a patent in the United States permits an applicant to establish patent rights with an early effective filing date for a later-filed non-provisional patent application. "Patent Pending" may be applied in connection with the description of the invention upon filing a provisional patent application.  Provisional pricing starting at

A provisional patent application has a pendency lasting twelve months from the date the provisional application is filed. The 12-month pendency period CANNOT be extended. An applicant who files a provisional application MUST subsequently file a corresponding utility application during the 12-month pendency period of the provisional application in order to benefit from the earlier filing date of the provisional application.

Benefits of filing a Provisional

Applicants are entitled to claim the benefit of a provisional application in a corresponding utility application filed NO LATER than 12 months after the provisional application filing date.

• patentability is evaluated and allowed to benefit from the earlier provisional application filing date,
• the resulting publication and/or patent may be treated as a reference using the earlier provisional application filing date
• the twenty-year patent term is measured from the later non-provisional application filing date
• manufacturers may advertise “Patent Pending.”

Utility:  The non-provisional (utility) application establishes the filing date of your patent application and begins the examination process. Your patent application will be examined by the USPTO and NO NEW MATTER can be added to this application at this juncture. Utility pricing starting at


Patent/Engineering Drawings and Prototyping
We offer patent and engineering illustration services at reasonable rates.