Reply from Bay Area IP Group, llcDec 10, 2025
Your edited update demonstrates your continued pattern of lying. For example, you say "The USPTO claim is open"; however, 37 C.F.R. § 11.34(d) specifies that the USPTO must file a complaint or close the case w/in one year after the date receiving a grievance, which proves you are lying b/c you filed your meritless complaint in 2022. Hence, you are in a very small (under 5) club that we are calling liars.
We completed our contracted work for you in 2021. So, why are you now lying about us 4 years later? Also, you made all of these false accusations in your complaint to the USPTO over 3 years ago, and they rejected all your allegations and close the case back then. So, even the USPTO affirmed your wild complaints of fraud, no work, and unethical behavior are false and/or have no credibility. Also, the fact that you did not later seek mediation also confirms that your allegations have no credibility and that should be generally disregarded. Yet, you repeat those same defamatory lies here, in violation any kind of decency and of the non-defamation terms of our service agreement, which lies are not protected by free speech. As the USPTO determined, we properly did our patent drafting work that you contracted us to do, yet you decided at the last minute not to have us file it because of patentability concerns we warned you about during the patent search process. Throughout the process Ariel offered to consult with you at his hourly rate agreed upon. Yes, he does not work for free. So, it is unreasonable for you to expect otherwise. You are the one that refused to pay for his time for the patentability opinion you later requested, which was clearly not included in our flat-fee patent preparation quote.
Also, you are misinformed. We employ a mix of patent agents and attorneys, depending on the type, needs, and budget goals of the client. Our attorneys are typically more sensible for work on high budget, corporate cases/clients.
That is, we have a mix of patent Attorneys and Agents, which enables us to have the range skills and labor cost to optimally fit the budget and legal quality needs of clients ranging from big budget Fortune 500 companies, to low budget individuals needing basic minimal cost patent filings, which Attorney labor is usually too costly for. In this way, we can use lower cost agents to do the bulk of the routine work and Patent Prosecution Lawyers/Attorneys to do the value-added final high skills “polishing”/strategy work. For the past >20 years, this formula has uniquely provided the best value (legal quality vs cost) to our clients, and is actually one of our big advantages over Attorney-only firms.
