Patent Pending

What is it? The status of an invention between the time when:a utility patent application has been filed and when it is issued or rejected, or a provisional patent application has been submitted and when a subsequent patent application (filed within one year) is issued or rejected. Inventors often mark their devices patent pending to deter competitors from copying the idea or claim it as their own.

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