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Prior art, drawings, and the filing review

The three jobs before Patent Center,
done against the claims.

Every vendor in this market prices the same three jobs: a search, a set of figures, a proofread. The difference here is what each one is read against. The references are read against your claim set, the numerals are reconciled with your specification in both directions, and the citations are verified to say what your draft says they say. Order one, or all three with the examination.

$199 prior art · $149 drawings · $79 review · $599 with the examination

Filing package · before Patent Center
IDS

14 references, 6 read against claim 1 SB/08 filled

Each retrieved as the published document. US 10,842,311 reaches the first two limitations at column 8; the relevance read says so, and says which limitation it does not reach.

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9 sheets, 41 numerals, 2 orphans Fixed

Numeral 216 appears in FIG. 3 and nowhere in the text. The heat exchanger of paragraph [0044] appears in no figure, which is a 1.83(a) objection waiting to happen.

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Review, 11 items 4 for you

Seven fixed in place: a stale title in the abstract, claim 12 depending on a cancelled claim, three numeral mismatches. Four need your decision and are listed.

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Patent Center ready One zip

Corrected documents, the IDS with its PDFs, the drawing sheets, the change log, and the open items, in the order the forms want them.

What you can order

Three stages, priced one at a time

Each is a stage of the pipeline that drafts and files university patents, opened on its own. Buy the one the matter needs.

$199 · PER APPLICATION

Prior art with the IDS built

References retrieved as page‑accurate PDFs and read against your claim set, each with a relevance read tied to the limitation it reaches. The PTO/SB/08 is filled, the reference PDFs are attached, and the order is ready to upload. Anything that could not be retrieved is named as unretrieved rather than cited.

This one runs on its own, now: the prior art explorer charts every reference against every claim element on a map you can revise the claims inside, and it runs on its own account.

$149 · PER SET

Drawings to 37 CFR 1.84

Figures rendered from your specification, up to fifteen in a set and $12 each after that. Editable vector files and PDF sheets, 8.5 by 11 portrait with a true media box, correct margins and line weights, every numeral reconciled with the text in both directions. Existing drawings reviewed for compliance at the same price.

$79 · PER APPLICATION

The filing review

Titles, figure numbers, numerals, claim numbering and dependency, inventor names and docket numbers checked across every document. Placeholders and draft artifacts removed. Every cited reference verified to exist and to say what the draft says it does. Corrected files, a change log, and the open items that need you.

Each order returns a finished work product for a registered practitioner to review. Nothing here is signed or filed by Patly.

The comparison

The same three line items, read against something

Drawing shops and search vendors do competent work at a fair price. What they do not have is your claim set, which is the thing that decides whether a reference matters or a figure is missing.

Ordered here

  • Prior art: every reference retrieved and read against the claim limitations, with the SB/08 filled and the PDFs attached
  • Drawings: $149 a set, numerals reconciled with the specification both ways, claimed features checked for an illustrated counterpart
  • Review: every citation verified against the document it names, not just spell‑checked
  • Same day, on the application you upload, with the examination available on the same order

Ordered the usual way

  • Search vendor: a list of references and a report, at $500 a month or more, with the claim reading left to you
  • Drawing shop: $50 to $100 a figure and three to five days, drawn from your sketch and not checked against the text
  • Proofreading add‑in: numerals and claim dependencies, which is real work, and no view of whether a citation is true
  • Three vendors, three invoices, three turnaround times, and nothing that reads them together
$599 filing‑ready

for the examination, prior art with the IDS, drawings, and the review on one application, against $776 ordered separately and the $10,000 to $15,000 you bill to draft and file it.

Pricing

Per application, or all four together

Flat and published. The bundle is the default order for a draft you wrote yourself and are about to file.

Best value

Filing‑ready bundle

$599per application · $776 separately
  • The examination under 101, 102, 103 and 112, with the responses drafted
  • Prior art with the IDS built and the reference PDFs attached
  • Drawings to 37 CFR 1.84, numerals reconciled both ways
  • The filing review, with a change log and the open items

One at a time

$79and up · per order
  • Prior art with the IDS, $199 per application (run it now)
  • Drawings, $149 per set to fifteen figures, $12 each after
  • Filing review, $79 per application
  • Patly Examiner, $349 per application
Bundle in blocks
Single$599per application
Block of 10+$549per application
Block of 50+$499per application

Blocks are prepaid and drawn down as you order. If the disclosure has not been drafted yet, the drafting package includes all four and the specification with it.

Questions

Common questions

How is the prior art order different from a search vendor?

A search vendor returns a list. This returns the documents: each reference retrieved as the published PDF, read against your claim set, with the passage that matters quoted and a relevance read written against the limitation it reaches. The SB/08 comes back filled and the reference PDFs attached, so the order is what you upload to Patent Center rather than a list you then have to work through.

Do the drawings come back editable?

Yes, as vector files you can open and change, plus the PDF sheets. Every sheet is 8.5 by 11 with the margins of 37 CFR 1.84 and a true portrait media box, because a sheet stored as landscape with a rotation flag displays correctly and still fails the size check in Patent Center.

What does the numeral cross-check actually check?

Both directions. Every reference numeral in the specification is looked for in the drawings, and every numeral in the drawings is looked for in the specification. Orphans and duplicates are listed by figure and by paragraph. A claimed feature with no illustrated counterpart is flagged under 37 CFR 1.83(a), which is the objection that otherwise arrives with the first action.

What is in the filing review?

Titles, figure numbers, reference numerals, claim numbering and dependency, inventor names and docket numbers checked for consistency across every document. Placeholders and draft artifacts removed. Every cited reference verified to exist and to say what the draft says it does. You get the corrected files, a change log, and a list of the open items that need a human decision.

Can I order one without the examination?

Yes. Each of the three is priced on its own and can be ordered by itself. The bundle at $599 exists because most drafts want all three plus the examination on the same day.

Drafts in, examined applications out
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Put one application through it

Upload the draft and order the three stages, or the bundle with the examination.