Posted on November 25th, 2009 in patents
When an applicant who has filed for the patent but has not been granted patent i.e. his patent application is under consideration then the term patent pending applies. Patent pending enables an applicant to prevent their invention from being used by others. So they can use the term patent applied for etc to warn others [...]
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