The fast path to a US utility patent application
Patent application filed in 1 day
from your existing documentation or repository.
Paste anything. Choose an invention. We draft and file it.
A $29.99 Deep Patent Discovery — the automated mining of patentable inventions from the material you provide — shows you what it contains; drafting starts at $599 per application. USPTO fees separate, itemized, never marked up.
One product · Two front doors — Web app + Terminal
How it works
From your material to a filed application
Four phases, all visible as they happen: the discovery streams its findings live, every draft version is kept, and payment for drafting starts only after you have seen what the discovery found.
- 1
Add your material
Paste design notes, memos, READMEs, source code — or connect your GitHub repositories. In the web app or straight from your terminal, whichever you live in. The account is free; the discovery is $29.99.
- 2
Pick the invention
The discovery returns candidate inventions, each scored on six dimensions and ranked by what you want patents to do for your business. You choose what to pursue — and pay for drafting only then.
- 3
We draft, you review
Claims first, then the specification and the drawings written against them — a reviewable draft within 24 hours, or within 1 hour with the priority option, in a workspace with unlimited changes under fair use. From $599 per application.
- 4
Filed
File it yourself with the self-serve kit, or we file for you: our contracted patent practitioner reviews the application independently according to the applicable laws, signs it and files it — you never touch Patent Center.
Phase 1
Add your material
Design notes, memos, READMEs, source code — whatever describes what you built. Or connect the PatentVibe GitHub App to one or more of your repositories — private repositories included — for discovery straight from the code, read at one pinned commit.
First, tell us what you want patents to do for your business — pick any number of objectives. They weight how candidates are scored and shape the drafting strategy: stopping copycats favours breadth and detectability; impressing investors favours a fast, on-story filing.
Then paste. The discovery only reads what it is given, so the more of the real material you add, the more it can find.
Stop copycatspreselected
Keep competitors from copying what you've built
Impress investors
Strengthen your next fundraise or exit story
Grow company & exit value
Build assets that raise your valuation
Stay safe to operate
Reduce the risk others block you later
Look credible
'Patent pending' for customers and partners
Earn licensing revenue
Create IP others pay to use
Win partnerships & deals
Bring protected tech to the table
Phase 2
Pick the invention — the $29.99 discovery
One discovery over one chunk of your material, priced per discovery — not per invention found. It runs as real stages with live progress, and candidate inventions stream in as they are found — never a blank spinner. Close the tab if you like; it keeps running, and your dashboard picks it up.
Every candidate is named, described and scored on six dimensions, then ranked by an overall score weighted by your objectives. A candidate that would be hard to detect in a competitor's product is flagged: a patent may not be the right instrument, and we say so before you pay to draft it.
Finds nothing viable? Add more material within 7 days and it runs again at no charge — the fee buys a real answer, not a single pass.
Phase 3
We draft, you review
Choose a tier for each candidate you pursue. Claims are drafted first, then the specification and the drawings are written against them — a reviewable draft within 24 hours, or within 1 hour with the priority option.
Every version kept
Claims, specification and drawings side by side. Edit, save a new version, compare any two, revert — the history is never rewritten, and every change is attributed.
Request changes in your own words
Describe what you want different; the agent posts a new, attributed version with a change summary. Changes are unlimited, under fair use, and the workspace shows your count.
Drawings included
Every package is the full application: claims, specification and abstract as DOCX in the USPTO filing template, and every figure the specification calls for as USPTO-compliant PDF sheets.
Phase 4
Filed
We file for you. On the represented tiers our contracted patent practitioner — a USPTO-registered agent or attorney — reviews the application independently according to the applicable laws, signs and files it — a filed application within 24 hours of your saying yes to the draft, review and signature included. You never touch Patent Center, and your application's status is tracked live from the USPTO's own data. If a filing you ordered cannot be completed for any reason, that order is refunded in full.
You file it yourself. For inventor-applicants domiciled in the United States or a US territory, filing pro se in their own Patent Center account (a company as applicant chooses a represented tier — eligibility is confirmed when you select). You download the filing kit within 24 hours: the three DOCX parts Patent Center accepts, the drawings PDF, the filled declaration(s), the application data sheet, a fee estimate and a step-by-step walkthrough. On this tier PatentVibe provides documents and guidance, not legal representation.
$ patentvibe draft --invention 2 --priority
claims drafted · 18 claims, 3 independent
specification + drawings written against the claims
your review — unlimited changes under fair use · 00:41:17Why us
We've been on your side of the table.
PatentVibe is built by multiple-time inventors — more than 100 patents and applications of our own — who have also spent over 10 years providing professional patenting services: hundreds of granted patents, dozens of long-term clients. We know what an inventor needs, what a company needs from its portfolio, and what survives scrutiny.
USPTO patents and applications analyzed to build our own semantic patent search — embedding models we trained and tuned specifically for patent discovery and drafting.
Mastering state-of-the-art generative AI — models, pipelines, harnesses — into one fully automated, quality-first process.
Universal discovery — point it at source code, documentation, drawings, anything: it mines potential inventions and ranks them by what you want your portfolio to do.
We analyzed US case law for what decides a patent's fate in examination and in court — and wrote those learnings into our drafting agents.
Prior-art references decomposed to their atomic parts, per application — so your draft runs along the best vector between them, predicting the examiner's objections and, if ever contested, what holds up in court.
Automation does the bulk work; professional patent practitioners — agents or attorneys — review, refine, and approve the result.
Work at this depth used to be practically impossible — at attorney rates it prices out at hundreds of thousands of dollars per application. That's why nobody did it — until automation took the bulk work.
Pricing
One discovery fee. One price per application.
A law firm charges $8,000–$25,000 to draft a US utility application (AIPLA 2025 Economic Survey). Here, the discovery is $29.99, drafting starts at $599 per application, and the USPTO’s own fees are always separate: on top, itemized, never marked up. You see what the discovery found before you spend anything on drafting.
One discovery over one chunk of your material, charged per discovery — not per invention found. The result is a scored list of candidate inventions and a viability verdict for each, with a prior-art sweep behind every verdict.
Step two
Per application
Choose a tier for each candidate you pursue. All three deliver the full drafted non-provisional US utility application package — drawings included; they differ in who files it, and the top tier adds a consultation.
Self-serve application package
$599
per application
You file it yourself, as an individual inventor
- The full application package: drafted claims, specification and abstract as DOCX in the USPTO filing template, and the drawings as USPTO-compliant PDF sheets (the 37 CFR drawing standards: A4 or letter, the required margins, lettering and line quality)
- A USPTO-ready filing kit: the three DOCX parts Patent Center accepts, the drawings PDF, the filled declaration(s) and, for micro entities, the certification forms, the application data sheet, a fee estimate and a step-by-step Patent Center walkthrough for filing pro se
- Unlimited changes in the workspace, under fair use
- For inventor-applicants domiciled in the United States or a US territory (eligibility is confirmed at the moment you select the tier)
- Track One prioritized examination at no extra charge from PatentVibe: the kit carries the filled request and you pay the USPTO fees yourself when you file
Represented filing
$999
per application
We file for you, as your USPTO representative
- The full application package, drawings included — the practitioner files from their own validated filing package
- A USPTO-registered practitioner reviews and signs before filing
- Filed for you — you never touch Patent Center
- Live status from filing onwards
- Track One prioritized examination as a filing option — the USPTO fees passed through at cost at checkout, never marked up; the practitioner files the request with the application
Coming soon
Represented filing + expert consult
$1,599
per application
Represented filing plus a 20-minute expert video consultation
- Everything in represented filing
- A 20-minute video consultation with a patent professional, on your pre-analysed drafts
- The fastest way to resolve strategy questions before filing
- Track One prioritized examination as a filing option — the USPTO fees passed through at cost at checkout, never marked up; the practitioner files the request with the application
Coming soon
In addition, official USPTO filing fees apply (from $400 for micro entities) — your exact total, below. Draft several applications from one discovery and the volume discount applies to each — up to 20% off at 10 applications.
Invited accounts start with one complimentary discovery and one complimentary drafted application on the Self-serve application package tier — each credit covers one order at that product's full list price.
Priority option
Your draft within 1 hour
Add priority to any application and the reviewable draft — claims, specification, drawings — is ready within 1 hour of the order instead of 24.
Coming soon
+50%
on the application price — $299.50 on Self-serve application package
Several applications
Volume discount
A discovery often surfaces more than one invention worth pursuing. Draft several in one checkout and the discount applies to every application in it.
| Applications in one checkout | Discount on each |
|---|---|
| 3 or more | 10% |
| 10 or more | 20% |
Your total
What it costs in total
Four choices — the package, your USPTO entity size, Track One, how many applications — and the exact total: service fees at the current price list plus the USPTO’s own fees.
Every package is the full application; they differ in who files it. Packages marked coming soon can be estimated now and ordered when they open.
The USPTO discounts its fees by entity size — the tiers are explained below.
Your total
PatentVibe service
USPTO fees
Total
The exact total at the chosen entity size, assuming electronic DOCX filing with up to 3 independent claims, 20 total claims and 100 sheets per application — beyond those the USPTO charges further fees, itemized before you pay.
Government fees
USPTO fees come on top
Every price above is PatentVibe’s service fee. The USPTO charges its own fees for every application — always separate, always itemized before you pay, never marked up. The USPTO discounts them by entity size:
- Standard
- the regular rate, for organisations that qualify for no discount
- Small entity
- most independent inventors, small businesses and nonprofits
- Micro entity
- small entities that also meet the USPTO’s income and prior-filings limits
| Per application | Standard | Small entity | Micro entity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic filing fee — Utility | $350 | $70 | $70 |
| Utility search fee | $770 | $308 | $154 |
| Utility examination fee | $880 | $352 | $176 |
| Core filing fees | $2,000 | $730 | $400 |
The small entity's basic filing is the Patent Center electronic rate (USPTO fee code 4011). Amounts from the USPTO fee schedule effective 2025-01-19, last revised 2026-08-14. Applications beyond 3 independent claims, 20 total claims or 100 sheets carry further USPTO fees — the self-serve kit's fee estimate and the represented checkout itemize every line before you pay.
Track One — prioritized examination
Ask the USPTO to examine ahead of the regular queue (37 CFR 1.102(e); the USPTO's stated aim is a final disposition within 12 months of prioritized status — an aim, not a promise). The application may carry at most 4 independent and 30 total claims and no multiple dependent claim. The USPTO's two fees, per application, at your entity status: $933 micro, $1,866 small, $4,665 standard. On the self-serve tier PatentVibe charges nothing for it — the kit carries the filled request and you pay the USPTO when you file. On the represented tiers it is a filing option at checkout: the same USPTO amount passed through at cost, never marked up; the practitioner files the request with the application.
Trust
Reviewed before filing. Confidential by design.
AI drafts the application; when we file, an independent professional reviews it first — and your material stays yours.
Independent practitioner review
When we file, our contracted patent practitioner reviews the application independently, according to the applicable laws. If for any reason the filing cannot be completed, we refund you in full.
Your material stays yours
Processed only by our own pipeline and contracted model providers — never a consumer chat tool, and never used to train anyone else's model. It lives in your account, stored safely and securely, and it is deleted the moment you ask.
Honest about the discovery
Scores are reported as measured, and the results say what the prior-art sweep ran against — a candidate that looks like a trade secret rather than a patent is flagged before you pay to draft it.
Deleted when you say so
Zero-retention on demand: we and our subcontractors delete your data whenever you choose. By default we securely retain the files relevant to your application, so they are there the day you need them — for example to enforce your rights.
Encrypted, always
Your material is encrypted in transit and at rest.
Need-to-know access
Only the professional patent practitioners — agents or attorneys — and the staff assigned to your application and to your account can access your data. Nobody else.
The full data-handling commitments — collection, retention, deletion, who can see what — are on the privacy page. Read the privacy commitments
Commitments
Clocks with numbers — terms you can hold us to
The Delivery-Time Commitment
Candidates within 24 hours of the order. A reviewable draft within 24 hours, and every requested change back within 24 hours. When we file: filed within 24 hours of your acceptance of the draft, review and signature included. The filing kit within 24 hours of the final validation.
The No-Viable-Candidates Re-run
If your discovery finds nothing viable, add more material within 7 days and we run it again at no charge — the fee buys a real answer, not a single pass.
The Full-Package Commitment
Every tier delivers the complete application: claims, specification and abstract as DOCX in the USPTO filing template, and every figure the specification calls for as USPTO-compliant PDF sheets.
Start with what you already have
Paste your notes, a README or a design memo. The discovery tells you what in it could be patented — before you spend anything on drafting.