{"id":27908,"date":"2022-10-20T11:59:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T11:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ideaattorneys.com\/?p=27908"},"modified":"2022-10-28T11:16:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T11:16:55","slug":"can-i-hire-a-flat-rate-patent-attorney-to-file-an-application-or-do-all-patent-lawyers-bill-hourly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ideaattorneys.com\/video-gallery\/can-i-hire-a-flat-rate-patent-attorney-to-file-an-application-or-do-all-patent-lawyers-bill-hourly\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I Hire a Flat Rate Patent Attorney to File an Application or Do All Patent Lawyers Bill Hourly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WcxwwrhHOCg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most patent lawyers bill hourly, and that\u2019s fine for giant, multinational corporation who can afford to pay invoice after invoice. But what if you\u2019re an individual inventor or a small start-up, and you want patent protection for your idea? What if patent attorneys are too costly for your budget? Can you still afford to get a patent?<\/p>\n<p>In a recent episode of the webinar series \u201cAsk The Patent Professor\u00ae,\u201d John Rizvi, a patent attorney and founder of The Patent Professor\u00ae law firm, was asked by a participant to explain the flat fee service mentioned on his website.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, Mr. Rizvi elaborates on the fact that The Patent Professor\u00ae specializes in working with the individual inventor or smaller start-up company that may be on a budget, and offers the service of preparing and filing a patent application for a fixed rate.<\/p>\n<p>Listen in. You might be able to hire a patent attorney after all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff Most patent lawyers bill hourly, and that\u2019s fine for giant, multinational corporation who can afford to pay invoice after invoice. But what if you\u2019re an individual inventor or a small start-up, and you want patent protection for your idea? What if patent attorneys are too costly for your budget? Can you still afford to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"meta_box":{"url_nqhatvayxc":"","register_link":"","trust_symbol_gallery":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaattorneys.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaattorneys.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaattorneys.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaattorneys.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaattorneys.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaattorneys.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaattorneys.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaattorneys.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaattorneys.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideaattorneys.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}