French patent application
Choose the offer that better suits your needs
Security
Performance
Attorney fees
2,500
€ excl. taxes
3,500
€ excl. taxes
Use cases
- Inventions related to the supplier domain of activity;
- Inventions related to alternatives not manufactured;
- Inventions related to alternatives manufactured, but circumventable.
- Inventions directly related to the business model;
- Inventions related to a disruptive product or process;
- Inventions related to the client domain of activity.
Objective
- Limit emergence of new entrants or substitute products;
- Limit vertical concentration capacity of competitors;
- Secure partnerships.
- Build a market share appropriation regime;
- Increase company value and attractiveness for fundraising;
- Increase bargaining power in selling the invention;
- Increase bargaining power in licensing the invention.
Patent application first draft
Introduction and information gathering meeting
Included
Included
Business model taken into account
No
Yes
Scope of drafting
Limited to the embodiments explicitly given
- Search for protection with a maximal market impact;
- Search for and integration of alternative embodiments;
- Search for and integration of circumvention embodiments,
In-house drafting
Yes
Yes
Patent application draft discussion meeting
Included
Included
Patent application draft modifications
Modification regarding essential features of the invention
1rst modification included,
then 250 € excl. taxes per hour
unlimited
Other modifications
250 € excl. taxes per hour
unlimited
Filing of the French patent application before the INPI
Completion of filing formalities
Included
Included
Filing fee to be paid to the INPI
Starting from 13 €
(see INPI fees)
Starting from 13 €
(see INPI fees)
Search fee to be paid to the INPI
Starting from 260 €
(see INPI fees)
Starting from 260 €
(see INPI fees)
Claim fee to be paid to the INPI
Starting from 21 €
(see INPI fees)
Starting from 21 €
(see INPI fees)
Procedure regarding the French patent application before the INPI
INPI official letter transmission
Included
Included
Prior potential step
Patentability assessment
Can be a plus
Strongly recommended