No patent is guaranteed—only the USPTO can determine whether an application satisfies the legal requirements for patentability. Our Patentable Design Process is intended to help inventors produce more complete engineering documentation, explore alternative embodiments, and prepare higher-quality technical disclosures for patent professionals.

The Patentable Design Process focuses on developing ideas and producing high quality products with outstanding technical documentation to support future patent applications.  

Unlike traditional product development, our process is designed to preserve the engineering decisions, alternative embodiments, and technical insights generated during development so they are available for future intellectual property efforts.

By documenting the evolution of a design—including prototypes, testing results, alternative embodiments, and engineering rationale—we help inventors preserve valuable technical information that is often lost during traditional product development.

The Patentable Design Process is an engineering workflow that emphasizes innovation, documentation, testing, and technical disclosure to support future intellectual property efforts.   

The process involves creating 3D models, which makes it easy to produce high quality prototypes for testing.  We can try out many designs and learn what works best.  When the product is proven ready through testing, the 3D models used for creation are used for patent drawings.  We draft descriptions of products and use transcripts of conversations to add context.  Combining modeling, testing, drawings, and coherent descriptions of an invention together, we provide especially high quality disclosures to be used in patent applications.

Throughout development, we document the technical features of the invention, including alternative embodiments, design variations, and engineering improvements. This process often uncovers additional concepts that may be valuable for consideration by patent counsel as potential inventive subject matter.

We are not attorneys.  We help attorneys by making really good disclosures with proper element names, numbers, drawings, and coherent descriptions of the features of the invention.

ProtoBear is an engineering and product development company. We do not provide legal advice, patentability opinions, patent prosecution, or legal representation before the USPTO. Patent applications and legal opinions should be prepared by a registered patent attorney or patent agent. Our role is to provide engineering, design, testing, and technical documentation that can assist those professionals.