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Counsel Subscription

Legal shouldn’t be a pain point in your innovation process. With our Counsel Subscription, we’ll build and manage your IP strategy and portfolio. Here’s what’s included:

All this starting from $1,495 per month.

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Flat-fee Legal Ops

Our flat-fee legal services are the backbone of Stake’s commitment to transparency and client service. If you don’t see something here, let us know. If we can, we’ll quote it with a flat fee. Government fees and other expenses (e.g., expert witnesses, customer surveys, travel) are additional.

We generally require payment in advance for any flat fee under $10,000, but we can to discuss payment plans.

Strategy

We’ll always start with getting to know you, your company, your technology, and how your company innovates.

  • IP Strategy Consultation $500

    A virtual 1-hour meeting to talk strategy, recommendations, and answer questions you have regarding patents, trademarks, copyrights, and more.

  • Build your IP Strategy (Starter) $1,900

    Get a tailored, immediately implementable plan for capturing innovation within your company with an on-demand video walk-through of the strategy.

  • Build your IP Strategy (Advanced) $9,900

    We'll compile, review, and audit your IP portfolio, including identifying opportunities that you may not know about. Then we'll determine your overall IP strategy and prepare a custom operational plan for bringing your IP portfolio from "here" to "there." This plan will include a custom innovation workflow to capture, review, decision, and protect your IP. Finally, we'll host a training session to teach your operations executives and innovators how to use the plan in a way that aligns with your business goals (a recording to be provided for on-demand viewing).

Patent Applications

We’ll always start with getting to know you, your company, and your technology. Every patent application project goes through our tailored and startup-optimized planning, preparation, and filing process.

  • File a U.S. Provisional Utility Patent Application $2,900

    Typical government filing fee: $120.

  • File a U.S. Utility Patent Application $8,500

    Typical government filing fee: $664.

  • File a U.S. Design Patent Application $2,500

    Typical government filing fee: $408.

  • File a PCT International Patent Application $8,900

    Typical government filing fee: $2,500.

  • File a U.S. National Stage Utility Patent Application $1,900

    Typical government filing fee: $504–$728.

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Patent Prosecution

We’ll always start with getting to know you, your company, and your technology. If necessary, we’ll onboard the existing case and then get to work.

  • Respond to a U.S. Patent Office Action $2,300
  • Respond to a U.S. Patent Restriction Requirement $700
  • Respond to a U.S. Patent Office Action (Procedural Only) $700
  • Finalize a U.S. Patent $700

    Typical government issue fee: $480 (Utility) or $296 (Design).

  • Respond to a Foreign Office Action $1,400

    Foreign associate legal fees additional.

  • Respond to a Foreign Office Action (Procedural Only) $500

    Foreign associate legal fees additional.

  • Appeal a U.S. Office Action to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board $2,500

    Typical government Notice of Appeal fee: $336.

Trademark

We’ll always start with getting to know you, your company, and your brand. If necessary, we’ll onboard the existing case and then get to work.

  • File a U.S. Trademark Application $1,500

    Typical government filing fee (per International Class): $350.

  • Respond to a U.S. Trademark Office Action $1,490
  • File a U.S. Trademark Allegation of Use or 6-Month Extension $150

    Typical government filing fee (per International Class): $100 (Allegation of Use) or $125 (6-Month Extension).

  • File a U.S. Trademark Renewal (§8 or §15) $190

    Typical government filing fee (per International Class): $225 (§8) or $200 (§15).

Copyright

  • File a U.S. Copyright Application $500

    Typical government filing fee: $65.

  • Respond to a U.S. Copyright Office Action $500

Transactions

Get a professional agreement for use by your company or with a specific party. Or, have us review and markup an agreement provided by the someone else. We’ll help negotiate in either case.

  • Professional Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) $490

    Also known as a Confidentiality Agreement or a Confidential Disclosure Agreement.

  • Intellectual Property Acquisition Agreement $590

    Also known as an Assignment.

  • Intellectual Property License Agreement $1,490
  • Trademark Consent Agreement $1,490

Analysis & Opinion

We’ll start out with getting to know you, your company, the other party, and the technology. After that, we’ll perform the appropriate searches and write the opinion if included.

  • Conduct a Worldwide Patentability Search $1,500
  • Conduct a Worldwide Patentability Search with U.S. Patentability Opinion $2,400
  • Conduct a U.S. Freedom-to-Operate Search $3,500
  • Conduct a U.S. Freedom-to-Operate Search with U.S. FTO Opinion $14,900
  • Prepare a Targeted Invalidity/Validity Opinion $24,500
  • Prepare a Targeted Infringement/Non-Infringement Opinion $19,500

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Litigation

We’ll start out with getting to know you, your company, the other party, and the patent or trademark. Then, we’ll discuss strategy, put a plan and budget together, and start to work the plan.

  • Answer a TTAB Opposition or Cancellation $2,500
  • Send a Cease & Desist or Demand Letter $1,500
  • Respond to a Cease & Desist or Demand Letter $1,500
  • Prosecute/Defend a TTAB Opposition or Cancellation starting at $30,000*

    Typical government filing fee (plaintiff only): $600.

  • Prosecute/Defend a PTAB Inter Partes Review (IPR) starting at $200,000*

    Typical government filing fee (plaintiff only): $19,000 with request, then $22,500 if instituted.

  • Prosecute/Defend a District Court Infringement Action starting at $200,000*

    Typical government filing fee (plaintiff only): $402.

* For tactical reasons, we don’t include specific pricing for this service on our website. However, our commitment to transparent pricing still holds. In our initial consultation, we will discuss more specific estimates. We will provide an up-front estimated fee schedule for the project after the engagement begins, with more specific incremental flat-fee estimates as the case progresses.

All flat fees subject to change. A flat fee is “locked-in” when paid.

Contingency

We are willing to review potential plaintiff’s side contingency fee cases to see if there’s a fit.

Startup Equity

We do not consider startup equity as compensation for our services unless you’re ready to pitch us.

Hourly Rates

We only use our hourly rates as a fallback for things we aren’t able to quote a flat fee for.

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