Online Provisional Patent Application

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Today, in the digital age, we can get almost every service online, and the patent offices around the world are no different. The USPTO (us patent office) provides a service that is less costly and used by many companies as a first step towards a full patent application, this service is called Online Provisional Patent Application, what this service basically allows you to do is to write your own patent application by yourself and the USPTO register this patent application with a specific patent number and from this day you have one year to register the full patent. This service is very useful because it lets you have a patent registered but keeps your application hidden before anyone will see your application and while all this happens you get the first date where you registered the patent. This service costs much less then a full patent application because there is no need for an expensive attorney to write your patent, you are charged only for the taxes and application fees.
This service has one disadvantage; you have to know how to write a patent, and also you have to know is your idea has been registered before by someone else.
In order to deal with these issues, there are a lot of tools on the web to search for patents; one of the very good ones is Setrue Semantic Search Engine, this search engine searches the world wide patent databases for patents similar to your idea. This patent search engine also has a unique service to write your patent application called Online Provisional Patent Application, you fills its form and a Patent Expert edits your writings and checks to validate that your patent is written properly, only then the Patent Expert fills the provisional patent application for you, sends the forms to the USPTO in your behalf and sends you a copy of your application along with your patent number issued by the USPTO. Using this service costs a very small fee plus the USPTO fees, but it costs much less then the alternatives.
I'm very much recommending using this service before registering a patent application yourself. That is what the experts are doing.

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