Many customers arrive at our site after linking directly from LegalZoom. Potential Customers would like to know: what exactly is the relationship between White + Quinn  and LegalZoom?

Summary of Relationship

The relationship is a collaboration of non-legal and legal services to provide the highest quality patent related product while taking advantage of web-delivered pricing efficiencies. White + Quinn, being a virtual firm with lower overheads and an a-la-carte menu of legal services, is able to pass along real legal fee savings to the customer.

A More Detailed Explanation

LegalZoom is a site for helping people create their own reliable legal documents. With respect to Patents, LegalZoom helps inventors start down the path to protecting their inventions. LegalZoom helps an Inventor with documenting the invention, drawings, a patent search, and sending the Application to the PTO on behalf of the Inventor. The Inventor makes their own decisions and guides themselves accordingly.

Where White + Quinn comes in: If, when starting down that path to protection, an Inventor would like to consult a Patent Attorney, in the course of their decision making, White + Quinn provides that consultation. This legal help, if requested, is available in the form of an optional Attorney review prior to the filing of a Provisional Application. This optional review becomes a mandatory review if a client is considering proceeding to the filing of a Non-Provisional application with the help of a White + Quinn Attorney Service Package. Because this is real legal service, it necessarily requires a real Representation Agreement. The Agreement, however, is limited to exactly the service the Customer has selected, and automatically ends when the service has been provided. No strings attached.

Why does a legal review become mandatory? 

While a Provisional Application is a quick and inexpensive way to begin the process of ultimately obtaining full patent protection, a Provisional Application is only as good and useful to the Applicant as the information it contains. Little information filed now provides little or no benefit later. In light of this situation, in the case where a non-Provisional (full patent) Application will likely be later filed through White+Quinn, White + Quinn requires a mandatory review of the proposed Provisional Application before filing to help the Inventor assure themselves of a real and useful benefit when the non-Provisional (full patent) is filed.

In the situation where an Inventor is undecided about later filing a non-Provisional Application, and is likewise undecided about using a White + Quinn Attorney Service Package for the non-Provisional Filing, a legal review of the Provisional is certainly worthwhile and highly recommended, but is entirely up to the discretion of the customer based on what the customer plans to do.

White + Quinn is here to help the Inventor, with high quality and cost effective legal service, regardless of how the Inventor arrives at our virtual door.

Representation at the Patent Office

White + Quinn is conceived to provide consulting services, but does not represent individuals at the United States Patent Office. Both John White and Gene Quinn are, however, associated with a full service law firm - Berenato, White & Stavish - which provides more traditional legal representation for a variety of intellectual property matters, including patent procurement, trademark procurement and litigation. If you engage the consulting services of White + Quinn to help you file a patent application and would like representation moving forward Berenato, White & Stavish can provide those, or any other intellectual property related services you may need.