Do you need help with your idea? Looking for assistance to patent your intellectual property? Confused if it should be a Design or Utility Patent you should file? The answer is if you are trying to protect the visual properties of your idea than, you should file a Design Patent with the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) which will be valid for 14 years. However, if your invention involves a device with an invented or innovated functionality, your design patent won't protect it and will definitely need your filing a Utility or Regular Patent for it. You can file both patents for as explained, they have their different purposes.
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Normally, a Provisional Patent Application (PPA) is filed before a Utility Patent or None Provisional Patent (NPPA) because, it is the quickest USPTO registration that can give your Intellectual Property (IP) legal protection. A PPA is valid only for 1 year though and before it expires, you must have already filed your Utility Patent Application to avoid losing your PPA's priority date. The other advantages of filing a PPA are, it is more cheaper to file compared to a Utility or Regular Patent and also requires less documentations and formalities.
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If you hire and trust us, will draft and sign a None Disclosure Agreement (NDA) with you before we discuss your idea and before we proceed to industrial prototyping it, we will responsibly advise you to Protect and Validate Your Idea first of all. Why is because, any type of prototyping services are expensive and will require time and if you don't validate your idea, you may end up just losing all your hard work and spent monies. Your idea's validation will let you know if your idea is worth it, to turn into reality and will be valuable to us, your new product design and development engineers as well. Read More.
