Conrad Muckler & Associates, LLP -- Pricing and Other Policies

Pricing and Other Policies

Patents, Trademarks-Prepaid, Flat Fee billing:

Unlike most other law firms, you will always know in advance how much our patent & trademark work will cost. All patent and trademark work is performed on a prepaid, flat fee basis. After an initial free review of your requirements, we will provide a fixed fee quote for drafting and filing an application.

Work on your patent or trademark application will begin upon your payment of 50% of this fixed fee, plus a deposit towards anticipated filing fees.

Fixed fees for applications range from $500 to $10,000 for patents and $500 to $1,000 for trademarks.

Subsequent to filing the application, there will be no further cost to you until a follow-up filing is required with the Patent Office, for example, an office action response. That is, we do not bill our clients for reporting out correspondence received from Patent Office, for docketing due dates, for entering information into our databases, etc. When reporting out an action from the Patent Office that requires a response, we will include in the report-out letter a fixed fee quote for drafting the response, and work thereon will begin upon your payment of this fixed fee.

Other Business Services:

(including licensing, business formation, commercial contracts, buying and selling assets, etc.)

These matters are billed on an hourly basis; however a cost estimate will be given before work has begun. Normally a retainer of 50% of the estimate will be required prior to the beginning of work.

Client Agreement Letter:

An attorney-client relationship does not begin until after a copy of a client agreement letter is signed by the prospective client and returned, and after we have conducted a conflict check.

Reporting out correspondence sent to and received from the Patent and Trademark Office:

Unless otherwise instructed by the client, a copy of all correspondence sent to and received from the Patent and Trademark Office is sent to you for your files.