patent pending
Application under review
Patent pending indicates that a patent application has been filed but not yet granted.
Manufacturers mark products this way to warn competitors that legal protection may soon apply: Patent Pending — U.S. Patent Application No. 12/345,678.
The status offers no legal protection itself but signals that copying the invention could become actionable once the patent issues.
- inventorCreator of original devices
- applicationFormal request document
- cease and desistLegal order to stop
- commercializationProfit-driven market introduction
- licensing agreementContract granting usage rights
prototype · public disclosure · non-disclosure agreement · competitive edge · design · industrial design · royalty payments · filing date · product launch · USPTO · copyright protection · legal protection · branding strategy · intellectual property · joint ventures
- intellectual propertycopyright, trademark, trademarks, copyrights, IP rights
- disc sportsdisc golf, flying disc, forehand, backhand, putter
- Proprietary Termstrademark, copyright, trade secret, intellectual property, IP
- IP lawcopyright, trademark, trademarks, trademark law, copyright law
- patentsUSPTO, EPO, PCT
- Patent WorldUSPTO, EPO
patent pendingpatented
Granted exclusive manufacturing rights
unpatented · generic · open source · prior art · trade secret
patent, pending, patents, patented, patenting, patentable, patentee, pend, pendant