UK patents, two steps
Great British inventions began as patents
Drawings from published patent documents; color and motion are presentation renderings.
Tools
Two tools, one page
Feasibility screening includes one run on sign-up and finishes in a couple of minutes. Drafting costs 10 credits per run, and new accounts get 25 — enough to run a full draft without paying anything. Any direction the screen says you can actually draft has a button that carries it straight into the drafting form.
UK Patent Drafting
Drafts a UK patent application aligned with UKIPO grant conventions (consistory clauses, single-part claims, British spelling, excluded-matter anchoring). Output is always in English — a first draft for your patent attorney to review.
Fees
Two fee levels — the difference is how much of the work you do
Both levels end the same way: an application on file at the UKIPO with every examination report answered. What changes is who writes it. Official fees are charged by the UKIPO and are not included in either figure.
You refine the draft
You write it with the tools above; we check it and take it from there
£4,250
Our service fee — no VAT is added. UKIPO official fees are charged separately, itemised just below.
- You produce the English draft with the tools on this page
- You refine it against the R&D you are actually doing — real test runs, real measurements, real interim results
- We review it, tell you what must be fixed before filing, and file it
- We answer every examination report, no limit on rounds
We do the whole thing
You hand over the technology; we do the rest
£8,500
Our service fee — no VAT is added. UKIPO official fees are charged separately, itemised just below.
- We run a prior-art search before drafting
- We write the specification and the claims
- We file and handle all correspondence with the UKIPO
- We answer every examination report, no limit on rounds
What the first level asks of you
- 1.A draft you produced with the tools on this page — not a one-line idea, an actual specification and set of claims.
- 2.Evidence of the R&D behind it: what you built, what you measured, what came out. Interim results are fine — most of our work starts mid-project. Made-up numbers are not, and a draft full of blanks is not ready either.
- 3.Your own reading of the draft. The tools produce a first draft, and the parts that need a human are marked. Somebody has to have gone through those marks before we look at it.
We confirm which level applies after reading your draft and your R&D record — not automatically. Send both and we will tell you which one it is, and why.
Official fees
What this actually costs
Our service fee is the two figures above. This is the other bill — the one the UK Intellectual Property Office charges, which is not included in either figure.
| Application fee (on filing) | £75 |
| Search fee | £200 |
| Substantive examination fee | £130 |
| Total through to examination | £405 |
These are the online rates; filing on paper costs more for every item. Charged on top: £27 for each claim beyond 25, and £13 for each page of description beyond 35. After grant there are renewal fees from year 5, rising each year.
Amounts and effective date (2026-04-01) as published by the UK IPO: gov.uk
R&D record
One R&D record, two places it counts
The evidence that makes a patent draft stand up is the same evidence HMRC expects to see behind an R&D tax relief claim: a real project, recorded as it happened. Keep one record properly and it serves both.
- 1.The advance you were seeking — what the project set out to achieve beyond the overall knowledge or capability in the relevant field of science or technology at the time.
- 2.The scientific or technological uncertainty you faced, and the work you actually did to resolve it.
- 3.The judgement of a competent professional in the field — why the answer could not readily be deduced or worked out by someone competent working in it.
- 4.Records kept as the work happened: what you built, what you measured, what came out. Contemporaneous records are usually far easier to explain and verify than a reconstruction after the fact.
Since 2023, HMRC requires an Additional Information Form with every claim, setting out each project and its uncertainties — a form that is hard to complete honestly if no records were kept along the way. Official guidance on gov.uk
This page and the tools on this site do not provide tax advice and do not prepare or file claims. Whether your work qualifies, and for how much, is for your accountant or tax adviser to assess.
Work you do with the R&D exploration tool on this site — the searches you ran, the directions you chose, and the measured results you log against them — can be exported as an R&D activity record; corrections are kept as appended entries, so the trail stays traceable. Open R&D exploration →
Who we are
Who you would be contracting with
The company behind the prices on this page, in full, plus where to take a complaint.
Invention Village Ltd is not on the register of patent attorneys kept under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and never uses that title. The patent-attorney privilege under s.280 of that Act does not cover correspondence with us.
- Registered name
- Invention Village Ltd
- Company number
- 15988870
- Registered in
- England and Wales
- Registered office
- C/O Azd Accountants LtdSt James Tower, 7 Charlotte StreetManchester M1 4DZUnited Kingdom
- Complaints
- [email protected]
If something goes wrong, write to the address above and say what happened. Invention Village Ltd is not a regulated professional firm, so there is no industry ombudsman to escalate to; your rights under UK consumer law are unaffected either way. Every detail here can be checked against the public register: Invention Village Ltd at Companies House
Send us the draft and the R&D behind it
Tell us where you are and we will come back with the fee level, what is missing from the draft, and what the UKIPO official fees will be for your case.
We reply within 30 minutes during business hours. Submitted after hours? We'll reach out the next business day.
Questions
Questions people ask first
Why is the first level cheaper?
Because two things drop out of our side of it: the prior-art search and the drafting. In the second level we do both. In the first, you have already written it and we start from your draft. The two figures are the prices of two different jobs, not two prices for the same one.
What if my R&D is not finished?
That is the normal case and it is not a problem. UK law works on first-to-file, so waiting for a finished project usually costs you more than it gains. What matters is that what you write down is what you actually built and measured, not that the project is complete.
Does the feasibility tool tell me whether anyone got there first?
No, and it says so on the result. It runs no prior-art search at all. It answers a narrower question: whether what you have would be knocked out at the first hurdle for being the kind of thing UK law does not patent. Searching is a separate step — the patent search and FTO tools on this site are a start (sign-up includes trial runs), and the second fee level includes a proper one.
Can I just use the tools and file it myself?
Yes. The tools work without buying anything from us — new accounts get 25 credits and a draft costs 10. Filing at the UKIPO yourself is allowed and the official fees are public. Most people come to us for the review, because a draft that reads well can still have problems that only show up years later, when they can no longer be fixed.
What happens to the business plan I upload?
It is used for that one analysis. The parsed text sits in a cache for at most 24 hours and is then deleted; the report goes into your run history and you can delete it. No patent-attorney privilege attaches to anything you submit here — do not upload anything you would not want disclosed.
Scope and limits
The tools on this page are software. Their output is not legal advice, not a patentability opinion, and not a freedom-to-operate clearance. Running them files nothing with the UK Intellectual Property Office; an application is only ever filed under a separate written engagement, which sets out who acts, what is and is not included, and the fees. This tool is not on the UK register kept under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and does not describe itself as a patent attorney or patent agent. The patent-attorney privilege under s.280 of that Act does not attach to anything you submit here. Visa and immigration questions are outside the scope of this service and are separately regulated: take them to an adviser registered with the Immigration Advice Authority (IAA, formerly OISC) or a regulated solicitor. Fees shown are service fees for the levels described; UKIPO official fees are charged separately and are itemised for your case before you commit.
United Kingdom · UKIPO
First see whether it can be filed in the UK, then turn a direction into an English draft.
- UKIPO official fees from
- £405
- Service fee
- £4,250 / £8,500