Ing. Mariana I. Vernieri
Agente de Patentes en EEUU
Registrada ante la USPTO
Nro. de Registración 77275
+1 (561) 235-8547
Mariana I. Vernieri
Registered Patent Agent
USPTO Reg. Nr: 77275
+1 (561) 235-8547
Boca Raton, Florida, USA
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Ideal for:
Individual Inventors
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Small Businesses
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NGOs
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Foreign Applicants
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Spanish Speaking Applicants
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And anyone who needs patent services at the best Quality/Cost ratio!
Patentes USA: The most practical, reliable and economical way to get an invention patented in the United States.
Choose us to legally protect your ideas, inventions and designs in the most important market in the world.
A patent is the right that the government grants to an inventor to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention in question in said country, for a given period. In the United States, the federal government guarantees this right through a set of laws and rules protected by the Constitution, which in its First Article, Eighth Section, empowers the 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 federal agency in charge of receiving applications for patent, examining them and granting the patents is the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), dependent of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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The Government grants an inventor the right to a patent in exchange for revealing all the details about it: what does it exactly consist of, how to manufacture or build it and how to use it. This way, once elapsed the term of the patent, society as a whole is benefited from the invention.
A patent for an invention must not be confused with the right to manufacture, sell or use that invention. The patent provides its owner the power to exclude other people from executing such actions, unless they count with a license or an assignment by the owner. This right lasts for some years - 15 or 20 depending on the type of patent, and with some exceptions and adjustments for various circumstances - after which the invention falls into the public domain.
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Counting with a patent is usually an excellent way to obtain competitive advantages and recover the investment which has been made in the development of the invention, since others are prevented from copying the idea and competing against the original inventor. Or if they wish to do so, they must pay the just price for a license or assignment. For this reason, the patent system encourages innovation. Many less companies and people would work on developing new inventions and investing in them if they didn't count on a legal protection which allows them to recover what has been invested and get a profit.
Patenting in the Unites States
Everything you need to know
What can be patented in the United States?
Utility Patents
Term: 20 years
From $1600 (plus expenses)
Protect your rights over useful and novel inventions of machines, articles of manufacture, processes, or compositions of matter. This is the most frequent type of application, and it refers in general 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 subject matter protected by utility patents, mentioned above in bold.
Examples of inventions protected by this type of patents are an engine, a new type of fabric, a can opener, a medication, a plastic bottle, a stapler, detergent, electronic device or an innovative manufacturing process.
Design Patents
Term: 15 years
From $1000 (plus expenses)
Unlike the Utility Patents, which protect the way in which an invention works or what it does, Design Patents protect the way it looks.
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It isn't about patenting a design itself, in an abstract way, but that said design must be embodied in some kind of product for it to be patentable.
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It can be, for instance, the design of a desk, some sunglasses, an electric juicer or a bottle.
What is patented through this application is the design embodied in the product and not the product itself. If your product has both an innovative functionality and an original ornamental design, consider applying to both a design patent and a utility one.
Plant Patents
Term: 20 years
From $1000 (plus expenses)
Legal protection for new varieties of plants of asexual reproduction.
Plants that can be patented include: new vegetables, spores, hybrids, mutants, and ornamental variants, provided they have not been found in a natural state but obtained through human intervention. The tubers and plants of sexual reproduction cannot be patented.
A provisional patent is the easiest and most economical way to obtain legal protection for your idea in the Unites States. Its term of validity is only of one year, but you count with this time to file for a non-provisional patent if you wish. With our flat rate application, you will obtain the "Patent Pending" status, ideal as marketing tool and for getting investors without the risk of the idea being stolen.
As the provisional patents aren't evaluated by the examiner, you will not receive an answer from the Patents Office about the patentability or not of the invention, or about which objections there could be. Anyways, it is important that your application is well written to make sure that it will effectively fulfill the role as an advancement of the definite patent which will eventually be filled in the future. If the invention wasn't correctly delineated, you could be harmed by not being able to claim the priority of the provisional patent. Therefore, although it is possible to apply "pro se", it's highly advisable to have the professional help of a Registered Patent Agent.
Provisional
PATENTS
Only $600!
(plus expenses)
Navigating American Patent Prosecution websites, you will find two types of offers: those onerous firms that offer personalized good quality services but at inaccessible prices, and those automated websites that offer patents at a low cost but with a minimum level of personalized work and a low-level service in which almost all the text of the patent will be based on your own work, without a Lawyer or Patent Agent guiding you step by step in its creation.
Only in Patentes USA you will find the best of both worlds!
​We offer you high quality work at the most competitive price in the market. We can do this thanks to our low fixed cost structure, since this is the individual entrepreneurship of a talented Patent Agent recently registered with UPTO, without the negative impact of employee salaries, offices or other additional costs in which the large firms must incur.
For an accessible
price!
The best service
Professionalism
and Efficiency
Is my invention patentable?
The same way we strongly recommend the hiring of a Patentability Search in order to decide if it is worth it to proceed with the project of patenting your invention, it is also important that you as an inventor get familiarized with the different aspects that can negatively impact on your possibilities of applying for a patent in the United States and getting it granted. This way, you could realize by yourself if there is some compelling reason by which it would be necessary to modify or abandon the idea. The main elements to consider are:
Procedure for patenting in the USA
Get your patent in 4 simple steps!
Free consultation
Begin by confidentially entrusting us the general ideas of your invention. At no cost we will make a general evaluation of the situation and recommend you whether it is convenient to advance with the process or not.
Patentability Search
Is the invention patentable? Are there other similar things already patented? Is there any other element which could impede its patenting? Find out with a complete patentability search.
Application
Once defined the convenience of applying for a patent, we will work on the description of the invention, the claims, drawings and everything necessary to file the application before the USPTO.
Prosecution
We will accompany you through the whole process, answering the different demands of the USPTO, making the necessary corrections until obtaining the patent.
How much does a patent cost?
Know all the elements that make up the total cost of a patent for an invention in the United States
USPTO Fees
Our Fees
Compare to:
Provisional Patent
$120 to $330
$600 to $1400
$1869 to $3200
Utility Patent
$665 to $2230
$1600 to $5000
$4817 to $7983
Design Patent
$465 to $1470
$1000 to $1500
$1308 to $1750
Plant Patent
$535 to $1750
$1000 to $1500
$1308 to $1750
USPTO Fees
Our Fees
Compare to:
Extra Patent Drawings
n/a
$50 to $125 ea.
$98 to $148 ea.
10 Extra Pages
$100 to $400*
$700 to $900
Hourly Rate**
Extra Claims
$115 to $820*
$25 to $60 ea.
Hourly Rate**
Patentability Search
n/a
$600
$1375
Translate 10 pages***
n/a
$150
n/a
​​* These USPTO rates apply in the case that the application exceeds 100 sheets, and they are charged every 50 additional sheets, or in the case that it exceeds 20 total claims, 3 independent claims, or from the first multiple dependent claim that is included.
** Most Patent Agents, and of course most Patent Attorneys, charge for this service hourly, the hourly rate ranging from $150 to $475 or more. With these rates and the number of hours that could be needed to professionally write the specifications sheets, the final cost could be very significant.
*** The translations offered are between English and Spanish. Ask us about other languages.
USPTO Fees
Our Fees
Compare to:
Office Action Response
n/a
$500 to $1500
$1500 to 2300
Design CPA
$465 to $1470
$500 to $2250
Hourly Rate**
RCE first time
$352 to $1300
$500 to $2250
Hourly Rate**
RCE second or more
$475 to 1900
$600 to $2700
Hourly Rate**
Restriction (w/o traverse)
n/a
$100
$395
Restriction (w/ traverse)
$210 to $840
$300
$825
Appeal to PTAB
$1085 to $4340
$1000 to $4500
$6250
** Most Patent Agents, and of course most Patent Attorneys, charge for this service hourly, the hourly rate ranging from $150 to $475 or more. With these rates and the number of hours that could be needed to professionally write the specifications sheets, the final cost could be very significant.
POST-GRANT
PROCEDURES
In Patentes USA, we can advise you on the various procedures that may occur after the granting of your Patent, always within the framework of the USPTO and the PTAB.
POST-GRANT
PROCEDURES
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Reissues
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Appeals
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Post Grant Review
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Inter Partes Review
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Inter Partes Reexamination
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Ex Parte Reexamination
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Covered Business Method
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Supplemental Examination
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Derivation
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Protests
Why our prices are lower?
These are the reasons of our competitive prices:
Low Costs
What we save in infrastructure, you save it as well
Patentes USA is a Solo Practitioner Firm. Our low fixed cost structure allows us to minimize the negative impact of employee salaries, offices and other additional costs in which large firms must incur, this being reflected on a lower price for the client.
Oriented to Small Businesses and Particular Inventors
We offer customized solutions
Our main audience are individual inventors and small companies in Latin America and Spain. Therefore, we understand that the purchasing power of our customers is not always at the level of large USA companies, and we make an effort to offer them a quality service at a cost they can afford.
Patent Agents
...And not attorneys
Patent Agents registered before the USPTO have the same knowledge and attributions as Patent Attorneys to represent clients before said organism, except that they cannot litigate or advise their clients in matters of infringement. Outside of that, Patent Agents are an excellent option, more economical than lawyers, for everything related to the drafting and prosecution of patents.
New in the Market
Start of activities in 2018
With the company Patentes USA PLLC incorporated this year, we are in a launching phase of the solo practice firm project, and, during the first year of activity, all of our services will be kept at deeply discounted promotional prices.
Applications for patents
Obtain "Patent Pending” status in a simple and economical way with a provisional patent, earning a year of time with the possibility of applying later to your non-provisional utility patent claiming its priority date. Apply for a Utility Patent to protect for 20 years the invention of a new and useful product, machine, process or composition of matter, to a Design Patent to protect the ornamental characteristics of your industrial designs, or to a Plant Patent to register a new variety of plant capable of asexual reproduction.
Additional Services
These are the costs for the additional technical drawings, drafting and filing of additional claims and extra specification sheets that you may need for your application and that are not covered by the original package that you have hired. Find out with our patentability search, before facing a patenting procedure, if there are other previous patents or inventions or other factors that could make yours not patentable and discover our translation services.
Patent Prosecution
Obtaining a patent goes beyond filing an application. After it has been filed, the Patent Agent must carry out various tasks, including responses to any objections, or rejections from the USPTO until the issuance of the patent is achieved. These costs can depend a lot on how the process evolves and on the strategies that the client decides to follow in each case.
Patent Grant
These are the costs that you will have to afford when your patent is ready to be issued, so that the USPTO completes the process of granting of your patent.
USPTO Fees
Our Fees
Compare to:
Prepare Utility Patent
for Issue
$250 to $1000
$300
$398
Prepare Design Patent
for Issue
$175 to $700
$300
$398
Prepare Plant Patent
for Issue
$200 to $800
$300
$398
After Patent Grant
These are the costs that you will have to pay the third, seventh and eleventh year after your patent has been granted in order to keep it current.
USPTO Fees
Our Fees
Compare to:
Pay patent maintenance
3rd year fee
$400 to $1600
$100
$300
Pay patent maintenance
7th year fee
$900 to $3600
$100
$300
Pay patent maintenance
11th year fee
$1850 to $7400
$100
$300
Price Variations
The differences between the minimum and maximum value of each item correspond to the complexity level of the invention to be patented. We offer three flat rate packages considering these levels of complexity, each of which includes a variable number of drawings, claims, specification pages and coverage for additional expenses.
The rate variation of the USPTO depends on the status of micro, small, or large entity corresponding to the applicant. To find out which of our packages is appropriate for your case, request a free quote.
USPTO Fees
Each type of application involves a certain amount of fixed costs that the USPTO charges as fees. When they apply, they are: application filling fee, search fee, examination fee, IDS submission (a mandatory document in which the background of the invention of which one is aware is declared) and processing fee.
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Not included: Patent issue fee (paid at the end) maintenance fees (paid at the third, seventh and eleventh years after the patent was granted), petitions, surcharges, time extensions, procedure acceleration, additional requests, or other extraordinary expenses (beyond what is established by the coverage).
Our Fees
This is the total value to be paid to Patentes USA for our professional Patent Agent services, corresponding to each level of flat rate package with what this includes.
The cost of USPTO is separate and the client must pay both at the time of hiring the service. Any additional requirements not included in the packages must be paid separately.
Compare to:
We have added the column "Compare with:" to our listings, so that you can make an objective and fair comparison of our prices with the other prices available on the market. This value was formulated through the average of equivalent services offered by 5 competing sites *. These 5 sites were not chosen by any particular criterion, but we simply considered them as varied and representative of the offer in general.
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*The considered sites were: accupatents.com, ez-patent.com, stonecreek.us, patentattorneycionca.com y bw-iplaw.com
Transparent Prices
If you wish to have a realistic idea of how much getting a patent is really going to cost, you have come to the right place. Next, we will present you a table with an estimation of all the costs that make up the total cost of a patent throughout time, depending on its complexity degree and the size of the entity which is applying. We include both our rates and what the government charges, so that you can have an estimate as accurate as possible.
All the stages
Many of the patents sites which, as we do, offer flat rates, only indicate the cost of the application, and clients are afterwards surprised to find out that the compete procedure ends up costing much more than what they thought the total price would be. To avoid this, we will include all the costs of all the stages, including the drafting and filing of the application, the prosecution of the patent before the USPTO, plus issue and maintenance fees.
About Patentes USA
Why choose us
The Company
Incorporated in Florida, Patentes USA PLLC is a Professional Limited Liability Company (PLLC), directed by the Industrial Engineer and Patent Agent Mariana Vernieri, with commercial address in the city of Boca Raton, in the State of Florida.
Conveniently localized in the best of Palm Beach County, one hour away from Miami and half an hour away from Fort Lauderdale or West Palm Beach, we have flexibility to meet with our Clients in their place of preference within the counties of Palm Beach, Broward and Miami Dade.
Being Patentes USA PLLC a Solo Practitioner Firm, our low fixed cost structure allows us to minimize the negative impact of employee salaries, offices and other additional costs in which large firms must incur, reflecting this in substantially lower fees for the Client.
The Patent Agent
Mariana I. Vernieri
Registered Patent Agent Before the USPTO
Registration Number: 77275
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Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, citizen of the Argentine Republic and the Italian Republic, Mariana graduated as an Industrial Engineer in the year 2000, in the Regional Buenos Aires College (Facultad Regional Buenos Aires) of the National Technological University (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional). Shortly after, she settled with her family in the city of Punta del Este, Uruguay, where she successfully developed entrepreneurial activities for ten years, mainly in the area of information technology.
In the year 2012 she moved to the state of Florida, in the USA, where she obtained a Master´s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) and afterwards a Master´s Degree in Communication and Media, both in Lynn University of Boca Raton. With this wide range of knowledge and experience, Mariana was an ideal candidate to apply to the Patent Bar and become a Registered Patent Agent, which became a reality in the month of July of 2018.
From there on, combining her experience as an entrepreneur with her Engineering training, her affluence with foreign languages and her new knowledge about the American Patent Law, Mariana founded Patentes USA PLLC to offer to the public an excellent service as an Independent Patent Agent.
Degrees
Graduate and Post-Graduate Degrees - Certifications
2000 - National Technological University, FRBA. - Industrial Engineering
(Orientation: Business Administration) - Average: 7.5
2014 - Lynn University, Boca Raton, FL – Master´s in Business Administration
(Orientations: Marketing and Mass Media and Communications) - GPA: 3.98
2016 - Lynn University, Boca Raton, FL – Master´s in Communication and Media
(Orientation: Digital Media) - GPA: 4.0
2018 - United States Patent and Trademark Office - Registered Patent Agent
Registered to act as a Patent Agent before the USPTO.
Expertise
Specialization Areas
With decades of experience as an Engineer in the areas of communications, new technologies and information systems, both in the role of independent entrepreneur as well as consultant for third parties, Mariana counts with a solid formation to carry out the prosecution of mechanical, electronic, processes and design patents, as well as everything related to software / e-commerce. In the field of computer science, Mariana masters graphic and industrial design programs, CMSs and website creation, image, video and sound manipulation. She has basic knowledge of programming, databases and servers. Also, her training in Digital Media allows her to elaborate her own Patent Drawings.
Languages
Spoken and Written
Spanish (Native) - Perfect spoken and written domain of her native language.
English (Excellent) - Bilingual level. Mastery of colloquial and technical English at the level of understanding and perfectly handling, in a spoken and written manner, everything related to patents and their applications.
French (Advanced) - With more than 7 years of studies and the DELF title of the French Alliance, Mariana can understand complex texts in French, maintain conversations and informally write communications in said language.
Italian (Intermediate) - Because of her Italian origins, plus some trips and months of study, Mariana has a good level of comprehension of Italian, although without properly writing or speaking it.
Japanese (Basic) - Few years of study. Elemental comprehension. Mariana reads and writes Hiragana, Katakana, y and a few Kanjis. Not enough to actually communicate in this language, but it can help.
Publications
Books, articles and academic papers
An important part of being a Patent Agent consists of being able to write in a precise and convincing manner the technical specifications, the claimed functionalities and the arguments in favor of the granting the patent for which an application is being filed. Here´s where Mariana's training as a writer results particularly useful. Author of stories, novels and academic papers in English and Spanish, she published her book "Planeta Lina" in 2010 (Trafford Publishing, ISBN: 9781426915482). She also published articles about a great variety of topics, in English as well as in Spanish, in Academia, Medium, and her personal webpage among others.
Philosophy
Personal and Professional Values
“When I set my mind to a challenge, I put all my resources in favor of achieving my goals. I am a highly determined, resourceful and organized person, and I have a great working capacity. My major ambition is achieving excellence in everything I undertake. This is the quality that took me to pass the Patent Bar (admittedly one of the most difficult certification exams in the United States, if not the most) with total comfort and to pass all of my master’s degree's classes with the highest grade. It is not enough for me to meet the expectations: I always try to surpass them, giving the best of me to achieve it. My commitment towards my clients is to put all my knowledge, dedication and intellectual capacity at the service of providing them with the best possible assistance, without economic speculations, and keeping an open and sincere communication in every step of the process." - Mariana Vernieri
American Intellectual Property Law Association
Junior Member​
United States Patents and Trademark Office
Patent Agent
Registration Number: 77,275
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