We are in Virginia. We hired a law firm to handle 2 patents for us. The first patent went great but the second one was returned by the U.S. Patent office saying the USPTO "objects to the drawings as submitted for having too much text". Our attorney said we would need to submit new drawings with reduced text which we did. THe attorney then charged us for a completely new patent ($4k). My issue is that I emailed the attorney repeatedly over several months asking them the status of the patent. We had no issues with the first patent which was extremely complicated in it's nature. The second one which was 11 pages long and three small pictures was a fairly simply patent (we had a previous patent pending that expired and sent them the submission from the previous patent and the attorney submitted it with no changes). After several emails over many weeks I finally told them not to submit the patent and that we will do it later in the year. The same day, I received the filing receipt for the patent.
My question is: Should the attorneys have noticed there was too much text on the 3 images? This is a very large patent firm in D.C. I feel that the patent was forgotten or ignored and when I said do not file, they rushed it. The attorney responsible for that patent, come to find out, left the firm either prior or shortly after the patent was filed.
I feel that a patent firm should know requirements for images?
Thank you,
Amy
My question is: Should the attorneys have noticed there was too much text on the 3 images? This is a very large patent firm in D.C. I feel that the patent was forgotten or ignored and when I said do not file, they rushed it. The attorney responsible for that patent, come to find out, left the firm either prior or shortly after the patent was filed.
I feel that a patent firm should know requirements for images?
Thank you,
Amy