Ways To Expedite The Patent Application Process

Based on statistics from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, those who file for a patent wait for an average of two years before they finally get approval from the USPTO.  Applications in the field of computer architecture even have it worse because it takes an average of 29.5 months for them to receive an answer.

There are ways to speed up the application process, such as the following:

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• Prioritized Patent Examination Program:  The USPTO implements this program, also known as “Track One,” to give priority to certain patent applications ahead of other filed patents, even if some of them have been filed earlier.  To be under this program, an extra fee that ranges from $1,000 to $4,000 should be paid to the organization.  The price is worth it, however, because average approval time is typically reduced significantly and average approval rate increase.
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• Patent Prosecution Highway:  In this program by the USPTO, filing a patent in the U.S. can be fast-tracked if the patent has already been approved in a foreign patent office.  This is because examination of the application has already been conducted, which can eliminate redundancy and save time when the USPTO performs its independent evaluation of the patent.

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Ron Blum is currently ranked number one in the world for the filing of patent applications for the class of optics, eye examining, vision testing, and correcting. In 1999, he helped establish Egg Factory, which invents, patents, nurtures, incubates, and develops countless innovations. Learn more about filing of patents by subscribing to this blog.