Search Trademarks
It takes 8-12 years on average to qualify as a patent attorney and all patent attorneys have engineering or science degrees as well as legal qualifications, backed up by years of intense training. Writing a patent is part science, part art, and much like heart surgery, it's best left to the professionals.
Our pricing starts at $4500 for a provisional patent application, which lasts for 12 months, and is usually the first step in the patenting process and allows you the opportunity to get feedback on your idea and fine tune it before a "complete" application.
If you don't want the hassle of doing a patent availability search yourself, then we can do that and write you a report of your prospects of success, with pricing starting from $3500.
If you feel that the invention is ready to go right from the start, then we can write and file a so-called "complete" patent application for you and skip the provisional stage. This is more expensive and we are one of very few patent firms in the country that quotes a fixed price for getting your idea into a granted patent (which can easily take 2-4 or more years, given the delays at the patent office and depending on how many times we have to argue with the patent examiner).
Once you have conducted a patent search we can file a patent application for your invention if it is new and inventive over any prior disclosures that you may have found. Of course, you can also instruct us to do a patent search on your behalf, as mentioned above, but most clients do a great job using the links to free patent databases that we send them.
No search is fully exhaustive or conclusive, so for this reason it is important to include as much information as possible in the provisional patent application, so that you have as many fallback positions as possible, if it turns out that certain aspects of your invention have been done before. For this reason, we believe in writing your patent document to global best practice quality levels (We can also get the Patent Office to conduct an International Type Search on your behalf for the same amount of money or slightly less once a patent application has been filed).
Once we’re done with it, your provisional patent application can serve as the basis for patent applications in nearly every country of the world.
A trademark availability search is conducted to:
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identify whether your use of the proposed trade mark is likely to infringe a registered trade mark - will you be stepping on someone else's turf?
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identify whether any prior trademark applications or registrations are likely to prevent registration of your trade mark - are there any blockers?
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ascertain whether the trade mark is registrable in Australia in respect of the goods or services of interest to you - can you get a trade mark?
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alert you to possible sources of third party common law rights.
Trademark Searches.
We suggest that you instruct us to conduct a trade mark availability search before substantial expenditure is contemplated and before you commence use of your trademark. While searching can never be deemed to be conclusive or exhaustive, it does reduce the degree of uncertainty.
Our Pricing For Australian provisional patent applications is dependent on how much time we need to spend in describing the invention and is thus dependent on the complexity of the invention.
We will always do an upfront quote first, which ensures you remain in total control of the process throughout.
