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What is the average cost to hire a patent attorney for a software idea because I keep getting wildly different quotes

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What is the average cost to hire a patent attorney for a software idea because I keep getting wildly different quotes
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2026 United States patent attorney fees software patent application cost provisional nonprovisional attorney fees survey Google ↗
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