For solo inventors and indie makers who can't spend $3,000 and three weeks on a lawyer just to get started. Describe your idea in plain English — Novl drafts a USPTO-structured provisional patent application.
A provisional patent through an attorney typically costs $2,000–$5,000. Your first Novl draft is free to read; unlocking the full version is a one-time $149, not a subscription.
A patent starts with a blank page — and most inventors never get past it. Attorneys are expensive and slow, and by the time you've saved up or found one, you've already shown your idea to an investor, a manufacturer, or a stranger at a meetup. Waiting to protect your invention is how good ideas quietly become someone else's.
You explain the problem, how it works, and what's different — in your own words. Novl turns that into formal USPTO structure: field, background, summary, detailed description, drawings notes.
Before drafting, Novl asks the clarifying questions a patent examiner would ask. After drafting, a second pass reviews its own work and flags anything still too vague — so you fix real gaps before you file, not after a rejection.
No subscription. Unlock a draft for a one-time $149, and it lives in your permanent Novl vault — read it, download it, hand it to an attorney, or come back next year for your next idea.
You can't justify $3k to a lawyer just to find out if an idea is worth pursuing. You want protection before you disclose it to anyone.
You need a provisional on file before a pitch or a demo day — not a multi-week engagement with outside counsel.
You're learning, price-sensitive, and want a real first filing experience without the intimidation of a law office.
Novl is a pre-lawyer accelerator, not a replacement. You arrive at an attorney's office with a structured draft instead of a blank page, saving billable hours on transcription so they can focus on claims strategy and novelty defense — the part that actually needs a human expert. Novl is a self-help drafting tool, not a law firm or patent agent, and does not provide legal advice or represent you before the USPTO.
The problem it solves, how it works, and what's different — plain English, no legal language. Takes about five minutes.
Novl asks what a patent examiner would ask, so nothing important gets missed before drafting starts.
Preview it free. Unlock the full USPTO-formatted application for $149 — yours to keep, forever, in your vault.
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