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| Concept | Tech Maturity | Prior Art Risk | Business Value | Status |
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| Predictive cache invalidation | High | Low | 9.2 | Ready to File |
| Adaptive ML pipeline routing | High | Medium | 8.7 | Under Review |
| Context-aware API throttling | Medium | Low | 7.4 | Ready to File |
| Distributed graph consensus | Early | High | 6.8 | Monitoring |
How do we file in days for a fraction of the cost while others take months? Here's what's under the hood.
Patentext works with your document management system and messaging apps, including Slack, Teams, Discord, and Google Chat, to extract potentially patentable ideas in real time, so your patent strategy never falls behind your innovation.
A synthesized, easy-to-understand view of current and future applications, with automatic technical maturity, prior art, and business relevance evaluation for every identified concept.
Purpose-built AI agents assist with disclosure, review, and filing when you're ready to move forward with a patent application, handling the heavy lifting so you can focus on building.
A human expert manages higher-level strategic decision making and ensures legal and technical accuracy, reviewing every claim, every reference, every filing.
Always know where things stand. Track every application from filing through prosecution with a visual timeline that keeps your entire team in the loop.
| Concept | Tech Maturity | Prior Art Risk | Business Value | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Predictive cache invalidation | High | Low | 9.2 | Ready to File |
| Adaptive ML pipeline routing | High | Medium | 8.7 | Under Review |
| Context-aware API throttling | Medium | Low | 7.4 | Ready to File |
| Distributed graph consensus | Early | High | 6.8 | Monitoring |
I've been genuinely impressed with Patentext. The system's ability to form a coherent, structured understanding of an invention from imperfect source material stands out.
Patentext made our first patent filing genuinely easy. The resulting draft was sharp enough that our engineer reviewed it and signed off with only minor comments. What we'd planned for months took weeks.
How Patentext's pricing works
Strategy, prior art search, portfolio tracking, invention disclosures, team collaboration.
Flat fee per application for provisional, non-provisional, PCT, continuations, and more.
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We never use your uploads, drafts, or outputs to train any AI models. Your invention disclosures are never shared or repurposed.
We maintain strict Zero Data Retention policies with all model providers. No inputs, outputs, or metadata are stored or reviewed by third parties.
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Patentext is a patent filing service for startups. Our AI helps with invention mining, patent strategy, and application drafting, while registered patent agents review and file applications with the USPTO.
Patentext is built for startups that need speed, predictable pricing, and a smoother user experience. Law firms usually bill hourly, while Patentext combines AI-assisted workflows with expert review to make patent work faster and more affordable.
You do not need a patent attorney specifically. Registered patent agents are licensed by the USPTO to prepare and file patent applications, and they are often a good fit for startup filing work.
For a provisional filing, you have 12 months of patent pending status before a non-provisional deadline. For a non-provisional filing, the USPTO reviews the application and may issue office actions that require responses.
Yes, when paired with expert review. AI can help with the labor-intensive parts of drafting, while a registered patent agent reviews the application for strategy, accuracy, and USPTO readiness.
Claims are the legal boundaries of your invention. They define what the patent protects, and good drafting balances breadth, support, and enforceability.
A patentability search looks for existing patents and publications related to your invention. It is not legally required, but it can help shape filing strategy and identify prior art risks.
Yes, ideally. Filing before launch avoids public-disclosure risk and gives you patent pending status from day one, which is especially important if you may want international protection later.
Patents can show investors that your startup has defensible technology and is thinking clearly about long-term competitive positioning. They can also become assets that matter during diligence, partnerships, grants, and acquisitions.
Patent pending means you have filed a patent application with the USPTO but it has not been granted yet. It can help deter copying and signal to investors that you have started protecting the invention.
A provisional is a temporary placeholder filing that establishes a priority date for 12 months. A non-provisional application is examined by the USPTO and can become an enforceable patent if approved.
You can patent new, useful, and non-obvious processes, machines, articles of manufacture, or compositions of matter. Software and AI can be patentable when framed as a technical process rather than an abstract idea.
A provisional application can be filed in days to weeks. A full non-provisional application often takes 18 to 24 months from filing to grant, and complex technologies can take longer. Patent pending status begins as soon as the application is filed.
File before you publicly disclose, launch, demo, offer to sell, or pitch the invention. The U.S. has a 12-month grace period after public disclosure, but many international markets do not, so filing first is the safer path. Some technologies are not patentable or are better kept as trade secrets. Your assigned patent practitioner will advise.
A provisional patent application locks in your priority date with the USPTO and gives you 12 months of patent pending status. It does not get examined or become a patent on its own, so you need to file a non-provisional application within that window to keep the process going.
Patentext uses a human-in-the-loop workflow: purpose-built drafting software prepares the application, and an experienced registered patent agent reviews the work before filing. Every draft also goes to you for technical review before submission, with drafts typically delivered within 2 to 3 business days after payment.
No. Office action responses, rejections, and appeals are not included in the initial filing fee. Standard office action responses are $2,000, final-action responses are $2,600 because of additional USPTO fees, simpler responses may be lower, and appeals are quoted separately.
The flat fee covers a normal non-provisional filing. Track One prioritized examination is optional and carries an additional USPTO fee, so we invoice a separate $2,000 line item to cover the government fee and processing overhead.
It depends on the path you take. Government filing fees are only part of the cost; professional preparation is usually the expensive piece. Patentext uses AI-assisted drafting and registered patent agent review to bring the total cost down with more predictable flat-rate pricing.
Subscribe when you're ready to disclose your invention and start drafting.