You Could Apply For A Provisional Patent For $110.00.

Did you know you could file a Provisional Patent Application for just $110.00? They call it a PPA.
Filing a PPA allows you the inventor to claim a "patent pending" status for the invention for one full year, but involves only a small fraction of the work and cost of a regular patent application.
A provisional patent application consists of text and drawings that describe how to make and use your invention. It's a short document -- often five to ten pages -- written in plain English, with none of the arcane language used in regular patent applications.
Once this is done, you can use the term "patent pending" on your invention, again for a full year from that filing date. If you file a regular patent application within one year of filing the PPA, you can claim the PPA's original filing date to prove that your invention came before other similar developments.

How a PPA Differs from a Regular Patent Application

It's cheaper. A PPA costs $110 ($220 for a large company), rather than the thousands or tens of thousands of dollars it takes to do patent searches and pay patent lawyers in preparation for a full patent application.