Cost of patent attorney services is very huge - around 300 - 500 USD per hour. Patent attorney work can be divided into 2 parts - begin stage and work stage.
Begin stage characterizes with gathering enough information for patent application drafting. Inventor, when he comes order patent attorney services, bring an invention description. This document, unfortunately, can't be used for patent application drafting, because, in most cases, doesn't contain specific information about invention, which is needed for patent application drafting. So, all patent attorney work here is to ask questions to inventor and then check it for completeness. Amount of hours, which patent attorney need for this stage varies from 7 to 12 hours, depends on complexity of invention and quality of inventor answers.
Work stage characterizes with professional patent attorney work. When he has enough information, he begins patent application drafting. All his experience and knowledge is used in this stage. Patent attorney spend 10 to 12 hours for this stage, again it depends of complexity of invention.
Statistics shows that 80% of begin stage questions is equal and don't depend of invention nature, for example, what does invention do or what differs new invention from old ones, etc. With IDlect Patent you can do begin stage by yourself, because it contains all necessary questions, which patent attorney is typically ask their clients, and examples from real patents. So, with IDlect Patent, you will minimize amount of hours and cost of patent attorney work.
In addition, in this book you will find how to perform a patentability check and patent search.
About the Author: Dmitry Platonov - an intellectual property professional. Current position - Intellectual property program manager in Acronis, LLC (Backup and Recover software products). More than 6 years experience in intellectual property consulting. Project Manager of IDlect Patent (http: //patent.idlect.com) project, which increased net profit of the IDlect Patent Agency for 11%. More than 6 years experience in intellectual property consulting. During this period, Dmitry Platonov consulted more than 150 clients and helped them to protect their intellectual property worldwide - USA, European countries, Russia, China, Japan, Korea, etc. Participated as a technical expert in 2 patent litigation cases.
