How it works

From a plain-language description to a filing-ready package

You describe your invention in plain language through a guided form: the idea itself, the inventors and their details, a correspondence address, and a short questionnaire that suggests your USPTO entity size — micro, small or large — which determines the government fees you pay. Accepting the legal disclaimer is required before anything is drafted.

When you start a draft, seven stages run in sequence. You watch progress live, you can cancel at any time, and a stage that fails resumes from where it stopped — your draft continues even if the service restarts.

The seven stages

  1. Step 01: Prior-art research

    The researcher searches USPTO records and the technical literature for work close to yours, then writes a patentability read — novelty and non-obviousness scores with the reasoning behind them, and the references it found. Those references become your Information Disclosure Statement later, because applicants have a duty to disclose the prior art they know of.

  2. Step 02: Specification drafting

    The specification — field of the invention, background, summary and detailed description — is written from your description and the research findings, in the document conventions Patent Center expects.

  3. Step 03: Claim drafting

    Claims define what a patent actually protects. The drafter writes independent claims covering the invention's core, then dependent claims that add fallback positions an examiner or a court can retreat to.

  4. Step 04: Figure design

    The designer decides which figures the application needs — a system overview, flowcharts, detail views — and writes a precise brief for each.

  5. Step 05: Figure rendering

    Each figure is rendered as a black-line patent drawing and stored with your application.

  6. Step 06: Drawing descriptions

    The Brief Description of the Drawings and the per-figure narrative required by the specification are written against the rendered figures.

  7. Step 07: Package assembly

    Everything derivable from structured data is built by plain code, not a model: the DOCX layout, the 37 CFR 1.84 drawing sheets, the IDS table, the ADS values, the fee arithmetic. The result is one ZIP.

Filing

PatentGenie does not file on your behalf — the USPTO has no public filing API, so the last step is yours. The filing guide in your package walks you through Patent Center screen by screen, the in-app checklist keeps your place and persists between sessions, and the ADS guide lists the exact values to enter.

File it yourself

Create a USPTO.gov account, upload each document where the guide says, enter the ADS values, pay the fee for your certified entity size, and save your filing receipt. The checklist ticks along with you.

Hand it to an attorney

Recommended for anything you intend to enforce. Share the package through a secure link that expires after seven days; the attorney sees the documents and nothing else.

Where the limits are

PatentGenie is a drafting tool, not a law firm. It gives no legal advice, forms no attorney–client relationship, and does not guarantee that a patent will be granted — that decision belongs to a USPTO examiner. What it does is put a complete, well-organised application in your hands, with an honest account of the prior art, for a fraction of the usual cost of getting to that point.

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