Your invention.
Pax makes it real.
The fastest, most affordable way to prepare a professional U.S. patent application, with AI, attorney review, and your approval before we file.
- Complete application in minutes, not months
- Attorney review available
- You control and approve before filing
- From idea to filed application, we guide you
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Preview before payment. Approve before filing.
Founders, product creators, and everyday innovators.
Five simple steps. Pax guides the way.
From idea to filed patent application, with you in control.
Describe Your Invention
Speak or type. Upload photos, CAD, sketches: anything.
Pax Asks & Clarifies
Pax tailors questions to capture the right technical details.
Pax Prepares Your Draft
Claims, specification, drawings and more. Verified for USPTO compliance.
You Review & Refine
Read your full application. Request changes if needed.
You Approve & We File
Payment does not file. You approve, then we file.
What do you want to protect?
Choose the path that fits your goals. You can always change later.
Utility Patent
For new and useful inventions and technology.
Complete utility application prepared for you.
Provisional Patent
Get "patent pending" and 12 months to build.
Establish a filing date while you develop.
Design Patent
Protect the unique look of your product.
Includes formal drawings and application.
Attorney Review
Get expert attorney review before you file.
Flat fee. All countries. Optional but powerful.
Real inventors. Real progress.
Join thousands who turned their ideas into opportunity with PatentExpress.
“Pax made the process simple and actually fun. I had my provisional ready in a day!”
“I was amazed at how easy it was. The platform guided me step by step and the attorney review gave me confidence.”
“As a first-time inventor, I had no idea where to start. PatentExpress made it clear, fast, and affordable.”
Applications prepared to current USPTO guidance.
We use bank-level encryption and never share your ideas.
Inventors in 100+ countries use PatentExpress.
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the world.
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A brighter future.
We believe invention drives a better world.
PatentExpress helps everyday inventors, startups,
and businesses turn their ideas into opportunity.
Frequently asked questions
Not as a legal requirement. Patent offices accept applications filed directly by inventors, and PatentExpress drafts the structure self-prepared filings usually get wrong. What an attorney adds is judgment: a licensed patent attorney takes power of attorney, walks through your application in a live privileged meeting, probes how a competitor might design around your claims, and adjusts the claims toward the strongest defensible scope. One flat fee of $3,995 covers every country you file in. PatentExpress is a document preparation and filing platform, not a law firm, and does not provide legal advice.
Your disclosure is encrypted in transit and at rest, and we don't share it. Two publication rules apply to any filing: a provisional is not published unless you later reference it in a filed utility application, and a standard U.S. utility application publishes automatically 18 months after the earliest priority date unless a nonpublication request is filed. Publicly disclosing or selling your invention before filing can also affect your rights in many countries, so filing first is usually the safer sequence.
You don't need patent vocabulary, you need to know how your invention works. Applications are judged in part on whether someone skilled in that field could build the invention from the description, so the how and the why matter more than the terminology. Pax asks follow-up questions to fill the gaps, you can upload photos, sketches, or CAD files instead of writing everything out, and no prototype is required to file. A licensed patent attorney adds a second layer on the technical side: a live meeting to walk through your invention, questions that surface the variations and problem-solving worth capturing, and a check that the description supports the claims before anything is filed.
We draft your complete application first: specification, claims, abstract, and figure descriptions, formatted to the patent office's rules. You read all of it before anything moves forward. If you want changes, you request them. If you're satisfied, you approve, and only then is it filed electronically, with a filing receipt and application number back in your inbox. That receipt establishes your date under the first-inventor-to-file system. Examination runs on its own clock after that: a provisional is never examined, a standard utility application commonly takes two to three years to a decision, and an accelerated filing targets roughly twelve months.
Yes, and this is the step worth taking your time on. You read the complete application and can request revisions until it's right, since nothing is submitted without your approval. New matter generally cannot be added once an application is filed, so material developed later goes into a separate application with its own date. If your invention is still evolving, a provisional at $199 holds your date for twelve months while you keep developing.
Your idea deserves a future.
Join thousands of inventors who are protecting what's next, with PatentExpress.