U.S. Patent Filing Cost for Foreign Applicants

Q01What does the $750 flat rate include?

Everything needed to take your completed application from your hands to an Official Filing Receipt from the USPTO. The rate is the same $750 whether we are entering the U.S. national stage from your PCT application, filing a U.S. non-provisional application directly (for example, under the Paris Convention), or filing a U.S. provisional application:

• Review of the application for compliance with U.S. filing requirements
• Preparation of the required inventor oath(s) or declaration(s)
• Preparation of the power of attorney
• Preparation and USPTO recordation of an assignment, when needed
• Preparation and filing of an Information Disclosure Statement, up to ten references
• Priority claim to your foreign or PCT application
• Onboarding, conflict check, and initial docketing
• Filing the application and paying the USPTO fees, including help determining your correct entity status
• Reporting the application as filed, and reporting the Official Filing Receipt when it issues

Many firms bill each of those items separately — the declaration, the power of attorney, the assignment, the IDS, docketing time. With us it is one price, so you know your cost before you send the file.

The flat rate covers filing your completed application; it does not include preparing or translating the application itself.

Q02What is the total cost to file?

Your total is our $750 fee plus the USPTO fees for your entity status. For a non-provisional application, including PCT national-stage entry:

USPTO fees verified against the USPTO fee schedule on August 2, 2026 (schedule effective January 19, 2025, last revised July 1, 2026). USPTO fees change periodically; we confirm the exact amounts before filing.

For PCT national-stage entries, the USPTO search and examination fees are reduced or waived in some cases — for example, where the USPTO acted as the International Searching Authority. Reductions only lower your total; we confirm the exact figure before filing.

Filing a U.S. provisional application? The USPTO charges a filing fee only — $325 undiscounted, $130 small entity, $65 micro entity — so the all-in totals with our $750 fee are $1,075 / $880 / $815.

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Q03Which fee column applies to us?

Entity status does not depend on nationality — foreign companies, institutions, and inventors qualify on the same terms as U.S. applicants. Broadly: small entity covers individuals, nonprofits, and businesses with fewer than 500 employees (counting affiliates) that have not assigned or licensed the invention to a larger entity. Micro entity adds further limits on income and on the number of prior U.S. applications, and is also available to applicants associated with institutions of higher education. Everyone else pays the undiscounted rate.

Determining your correct status is part of the flat rate — claiming a discount you are not entitled to can jeopardize a patent, so we confirm it with you before filing.

Q04What can add USPTO fees to the totals above?

The USPTO charges additional fees for applications that exceed certain limits:

Information Disclosure Statements citing more than 50 cumulative references also trigger tiered USPTO fees ($200 to $800).

We screen every application for these items during our review. If your application will generate any of them, we tell you the amount before we file — you will never learn about an excess fee from the filing receipt.

Q05What is not included in the flat rate?

The flat rate covers filing. The following are outside it:

• English translation of the application (we obtain a quote for you in advance)
• Substitute statements where an inventor is unavailable or unwilling to sign
• Petitions, including petitions for late national-stage entry
• Information Disclosure Statements beyond ten references
• Preliminary amendments
• Extensions of time
• Drawing corrections or preparation of formal drawings
• Maintenance-fee (annuity) payments and tracking

Work beyond the flat rate is billed hourly — and only after you authorize it.

Q06Do you charge to forward Office actions and USPTO correspondence?

No. We docket and forward Office actions and other USPTO correspondence to you or your firm at no charge. We undertake billable work only when you authorize it; you will never receive an invoice for work you did not approve.

Q07What do we need to send you to file?

Three things:

1. A retainer of $750 plus the USPTO fees for your entity status — the "Total to file" line in the table above.
2. The application: the complete application as it will be filed (specification, claims, abstract, drawings) — or, for a PCT national-stage entry, the PCT application number.
3. If claiming priority: the priority application number and the WIPO DAS access code. If the priority office does not participate in DAS, a certified copy of the priority document.

Q08How do we send you the file?

However your office prefers: email, a secure file-transfer service, a download link from your docketing system — any means that delivers the documents works for us. We do not require you to use a portal.

Q09How close to the deadline can we send you a file?

To be safe, we ask for the complete application and filing information at least three business days before the deadline. Same-day filing is sometimes possible for a complete file — if you are against the deadline, contact us before assuming it is too late.

Q10How do we pay?

By international wire transfer (we provide instructions when you engage us) or by credit card or electronic payment through our payments page. Card and electronic payments carry the processing surcharge shown there.

Q11Do you work with foreign patent firms?

Yes — law firms around the world use this service. We act as your U.S. associate, not your competitor: your client stays your client, we file and prosecute before the USPTO on your instructions, and we report at every step. If you already instruct associates in Europe or Asia, you will find the workflow familiar. More at U.S. patent services for foreign applicants.