Muzikman:
I did not say an issued patent. here's what I did say:
"I have filed numerous, numerous, numerous applications over the past several years."
and, originally:
"You can get protection for under $100"
I'll not reveal my secret - even though its publicly available at
www.uspto.gov. I'll let you figure it out for yourself.
If you want to talk about getting a GRANT and the cost to see it through from application to granting, then even your 400 is too low an estimate: filing fees are based on the total number of claims as well as the number of independent claims and a few other factors as well (such as the kind of utility application, expedited, etc.) and you can expect, even when filing yourself, to pay several thousand dollars in application and publication fees, dollars for drawings, dollars for searching and, in the end, dollars for a patent attorney to clean up the mess you made yourself.
But that's not what I was talking about. I was talking about a low cost system that was put specifically in place for the 'poor' inventor.