Ing. Mariana I. Vernieri
U.S. Patent Agent
Registered with the USPTO
Registration No. 77275
+1 (561) 809-2760
Patentes USA
The most practical, reliable and economical way to obtain a U.S. patent from Latin America and Spain
Choose us to legally protect your ideas, inventions and designs in the world's most important market
A patent is the right granted by a country's government to an inventor to prevent other people from selling, making or using the invention in question in that country, for a set period of time. In the case of the United States, the federal government guarantees this right through a body of laws and rules grounded in the Constitution, which, in Article One, Section Eight, empowers Congress to promote the progress of science and useful arts, "by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries". The government agency in charge of receiving patent applications and issuing patents is the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), part of the Department of Commerce.
In essence, the Government grants an inventor the right to a patent in exchange for disclosing all the details of the invention: exactly what it consists of, how to make/build it and how to use it. Thus, once the patent term has expired, society as a whole benefits from the invention.
A patent on an invention should not be confused with the right to make, sell or use that invention. A patent gives its owner the power to prevent or stop other people from performing such acts, unless they have a license or assignment from its owner. This right lasts for a number of years - 15 or 20 depending on the type of patent, with some exceptions and adjustments for various circumstances - after which the invention passes into the public domain.
Having a patent is usually an excellent way to gain competitive advantages to recoup the investment made in developing the invention, since others are prevented from copying the idea and competing against the original inventor. Or, if they want to do so, they must pay a fair price for a license or assignment. For this reason, the patent system encourages innovation. Far fewer companies and individuals would devote themselves to developing new inventions and investing in them if they did not have legal protection allowing them to recoup their investment and make a profit.
THE UNITED STATES IS BOTH THE LARGEST AND THE MOST FRIENDLY MARKET FOR PATENTING AN IDEA
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U.S. PATENT
Whether you have already patented your invention or started the patent process in your home country (less than a year ago) or wish to do so for the first time, obtaining a patent in the United States will help you protect the intellectual property rights in your invention in the most important commercial market on the planet.
100% PERSONALIZED SERVICE TO MEET EACH CLIENT'S SPECIFIC NEEDS
LOW COSTS, FIRST-CLASS SERVICE
Our firm offers you the best options for patenting your inventions. While low-cost companies usually offer very incomplete, low-quality work, and those who do personalized work usually charge about twice as much as we do, only here will we offer you 100% personalized, high-quality work at competitive prices.
FORGET ABOUT THE LANGUAGE BARRIER AND SAVE ON TRANSLATIONS THANKS TO OUR BILINGUAL ADVICE THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS
WE SPEAK SPANISH
Our Spanish-speaking clients enjoy the advantage of seamless integration between Spanish (used for agent-client communications) and English (used for patents, applications and official documents). Save on unnecessary translations that other agents would require in English. All the documentation you send us in Spanish will be useful.
Patent your invention in the U.S.
Everything you need to know
Who can patent in the USA?
U.S. law does not require the inventor to be a citizen or resident of the U.S. in order to apply for a patent. If the inventor has assigned, or is obligated to assign, their rights in the invention to a company (for example, if the inventor was an employee of that company and the invention arose within the scope of the employment contract), that company does not need to be incorporated in the United States.
In fact, about 30% of the patents granted in the United States go to foreign applicants.
Foreign applicants can be represented by any Patent Agent (or Patent Attorney) with the registration required to practice before the USPTO, as we offer you at Patentes USA.
With the help of Patentes USA, you can obtain your U.S. patent
comfortably from your home abroad
Unlike in other countries, to proceed with the application, the foreign inventor must sign an oath or declaration stating that they are the true intellectual author of the invention to be patented. If abroad, this must be done at the U.S. consular office corresponding to their place of residence.
At Patentes USA we specialize in applications from abroad. Your Patent Agent will guide you throughout the entire process so that you can carry out the whole procedure remotely, smoothly and efficiently, without ever needing to travel to the United States.
Even if you are not a citizen or resident of the United States, you can apply for a patent here and obtain the most coveted protection for your Intellectual Property rights. Count on our help to make the process easy from a distance. Put your patent in our hands and get results in the most convenient and least invasive way possible, providing only the minimum essential documentation and without having to worry about translations, meetings, the day-to-day of prosecution or responses to the USPTO.
The importance of patenting your inventions in the United States of America
Despite the existence of certain international treaties on Intellectual Property, each country in principle grants legal protection only within its own borders. This means that even if you have patented your invention in Argentina, Spain or Venezuela, someone can come to the United States and make it, sell it, and earn a great deal of money without having to pay you a single cent in recognition of your invention. To have an exclusive right to the manufacture, sale and production of your invention, as well as to collect licensing fees on it, you must obtain a patent in each place where you want this protection. Because of its degree of innovation, its influence and the strength of its economy, the United States is the country where most inventors prefer to patent their inventions, as it is the one that can generate the greatest economic impact for them.
Patentes USA is undoubtedly the most convenient option for Spanish-speaking inventors and companies wishing to hire Patent Agent services in the United States. If you wish, all our communications can be in Spanish, including our written reports and all the documentation you have about your invention. This way, your translation costs will be kept to a minimum, making the whole interaction much more dynamic, economical and effective. For your convenience, in cases where it is essential to translate some texts, we have a good-quality, low-cost translation service built in.
What can be patented in the U.S.?
Utility Patents
For 20 years
From $2000 (plus fees)
Protect your rights to useful and novel inventions of machines, articles of manufacture, processes, or compositions of matter. This is the most common type of application, and generally refers to mechanical inventions with a function, although they can also be chemical, biotechnological, electronic and of other types, as long as they fall within the four categories of patentable subject matter mentioned above in bold.
Examples of inventions protectable by this type of patent are an engine, a new type of fabric, a can opener, a medicine, a plastic bottle, a stapler, a detergent, an electronic device, or a novel manufacturing process.
Design Patents
For 15 years
From $1250 (plus fees)
Unlike Utility Patents, which protect the way an invention works or what it does, design patents protect how it looks.
It is not about patenting a design in itself, in the abstract; the design must be applied to some type of product in order to be patentable.
It may be, for example, the design of a desk, a pair of sunglasses, an electric juicer or a bottle. What is patented through this application is the design applied to the product and not the product itself. If your product also has a novel functionality and an original ornamental design, consider applying for both a design patent and a utility patent.
Plant Patents
For 20 years
From $1250 (plus fees)
Legal protection for new varieties of asexually reproduced plants.
Plants that may be patented include: new vegetables, spores, hybrids, mutants, and ornamental variants, as long as they were not found in the wild but obtained through human intervention. Tubers and sexually reproduced plants cannot be patented.
Provisional
Only $500!
(plus fees)
The provisional patent is the most economical and simple way to obtain legal protection for your idea in the United States. It is only valid for one year, but you have this time to apply for a non-provisional patent if you so decide. With our flat-fee application, you will obtain "Patent Pending" status, ideal as a marketing tool and for attracting investors without the risk of having your idea stolen.
Since provisional patents are not examined, you will not receive a response from the Patent Office on whether or not the invention is patentable, or what objections there may be. However, it is important that your application is well drafted to ensure that it will effectively serve as a forerunner of the final patent you eventually file in the future. If the invention is not properly described, you may be harmed by not being able to claim the priority of the provisional patent. That is why, although it is possible to apply "pro se", it is highly recommended to have the professional help of a registered Patent Agent.
Patents
at an affordable price!
The best service
Professionalism
and Efficiency
Browsing American Patent Prosecution sites on the Internet, you will mostly find two types of offers: costly firms that offer good-quality personalized services but at unaffordable prices, and automated sites that offer low-cost patents but with a minimal level of personalized work and a limited service in which almost all the text of the patent will be based on your own work, without a Patent Attorney or Agent guiding you step by step in its creation.
Only at Patentes USA will you find the best of both worlds!
We offer you high-quality work at the most competitive price on the market. We can do this thanks to our low fixed cost structure, as we are the individual practice of a talented Patent Agent registered with the USPTO since 2018, with more than 70 applications filed and a very high first-round approval rate, without the negative impact of fixed employee salaries, offices or other additional costs that large firms must incur.
Process for patenting in the U.S.
Get your patent in 4 Simple steps!
Free consultation
Start by confidentially sharing the general ideas of your invention with us. At no cost, we will make a general assessment of the situation and advise you on whether it makes sense to move forward with the process
Patentability Study
Is the invention really patentable? Are there similar things already patented? Is there any other element that would prevent it from being patented? Find out with a complete patentability study
Application
Once it is clear that applying for a patent makes sense, we will work on the description of the invention, the "Claims", the drawings and everything needed to file the application with the USPTO
Prosecution
We will accompany you throughout the entire process, responding to the various USPTO requirements and making whatever corrections are necessary until the patent is obtained
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