IdeaNav offers the most effective way to file patents and design registrations. Its team of patent attorneys will tailor your protection to suit your budget – we understand your funds must still cover further product development, manufacturing and marketing.
We offer patent searching, patent registration and design registration at fixed, competitive prices:
| Patent search | R9,950 |
| Provisional patent | R19,950 plus vat |
| PCT / international patent | From R45,000 |
| Design registration | R9,950 plus vat |
| Trademark registrability search | R2,500 plus vat |
| Trademark registration | R3,750 plus vat |
Develop your idea through prototyping to protection via a single, safe and professional port – us. Our patent and trademark attorneys will ensure that your ideas remain secret.
The headlong rush to product design causes many products to fail. Product design is a process. And, much groundwork should be done before committing to design for manufacture. We suggest the following: 1. conduct a patent search to determine whether your product has a new feature that may ultimately be protected. This is particularly important […]
Read more ›You need only patent your invention just before releasing it to the public (i.e. disclosing your invention without confidentiality agreements). As long as you can maintain your unpatented invention secret, you are ok. All prototypers, industrial designers, engineers, potential manufacturers and funders you approach should willingly sign confidentialities. Don’t worry about patent attorneys – the […]
Read more ›Raising funding for your invention is not easy. Yours is one of many applications funders receive. To be noticed you must stand out. A word document is simply not enough – this is the bare minimum, and everyone submits one. One of the biggest risks to funders is an inventor that is unable to drive […]
Read more ›We’ve tried lots of 3D printing machines and materials (PLA, ABS and polymer resins). And, our favorite (leading its competition by a country mile) is a nylon sintering machine.
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