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I’m a fairly new/young patent attorney. I work at a firm where I am the only patent attorney, of several attorneys. I am trying to figure out how to set my fees and fee structure for patent prosecution and trademark registration work. Friends from law school in the Dallas area suggested using a flat-fee for prosecution, rather than an hourly rate. My concerns are, because I’m relatively new to prosecution, I’m not sure how to accurately estimate the time involved from an inventor’s initial disclosure so I set a flat-fee that won’t grossly underpredict the amount of time required. Of course, I also want to set my fee to be market competitive. I’m located in the Greater Nashville Area.