What is the cost of a design Patent

Question

To get a design and/or an idea patented (United Kingdom); do you have any idea of the process and costs involved?

Thanks for you help.

Answer 1

If you draft the patent yourself it costs nothing initially (there are later costs). However, a patent is a legal document and if your project becomes commercially viable and gets copied and you decide to sue someone for breach of intellectual property rights (IPR), then it needs to hold water. So for this reason in my opinion you should use a Chartered Patent Agent/attorney.  But before you apply you should :- 1) find out if its new; 2) build and test it (once you have done that then any developments and discoveries can be incorporated into the patent).

But the big question is really how will you make money from your idea?