Attorney-Drafted & Filed Provisional Patent Application
A streamlined provisional offering listed on the firm's website at a promotional rate.
Biotech / Life-Sciences Patentability Search
Patentability work in molecular biology, diagnostics, therapeutics, and related life-science areas, where literature volume drives effort.
$1,200.00
$4,000.00
Tier 1
Tier 2
Tier 3
$1,200.00
$2,500.00
$4,000.00
Engagement type: Tiered Fee
Attorney fee: $1,200 / $2,500 / $4,000
Tier 1: $1,200 · Tier 2: $2,500 · Tier 3: $4,000
USPTO / USCO / WIPO fees billed separately at cost.
Best for
Patentability work in molecular biology, diagnostics, therapeutics, and related life-science areas, where literature volume drives effort.
What’s included
- Tier 1 — focused single-concept search.
- Tier 2 — multi-concept search with attorney memo and reference ranking.
- Tier 3 — comprehensive landscape-style search plus written opinion.
- Sequence, target, mechanism, and disease-state literature searched as relevant to the invention.
What’s NOT included
- Government, third-party, foreign-associate, translation, courier, and vendor fees.
- Continued prosecution, additional office actions, or post-allowance work beyond what is expressly itemized.
- Litigation, contested proceedings (IPR/PGR/PTAB, oppositions, cancellations), or appeal work.
- Work on additional applications, jurisdictions, classes, or marks not listed in the engagement letter.
- Wet-lab characterization, sequence alignment beyond standard tools, or external bioinformatics work.
- FTO/infringement analysis (separate service).
Client responsibilities
- Provide complete, accurate, and timely technical / business disclosures.
- Review and approve drafts and filings before submission.
- Pay government and third-party fees in advance of any filing deadline.
- Identify target sequences, indications, mechanisms, and known related publications.
Assumptions
- Standard complexity for the service category.
- One primary applicant or business entity; one primary jurisdiction unless otherwise stated.
- One round of substantive client revisions included.
- No material adverse facts (e.g., prior public disclosure, intervening prior art) discovered after engagement.
- Tier selected after intake; upgrades available with credit at the firm’s discretion.
Scope-change triggers
- Material change in scope, claims, embodiments, classes, marks, or jurisdictions.
- Adversarial action by a third party (opposition, cancellation, declaratory action).
- Expedited / emergency turnaround required to meet a statutory or self-imposed deadline.
- After-discovered prior art, prior use, or undisclosed prior filings.
Deliverables
Tiered search report and attorney memo.
Typical timing
Tier 1: ~1 week · Tier 2: 2–3 weeks · Tier 3: 3–5 weeks.
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