ocr: Patent Pending The words "Patent Pending" or "Pat. Pend. indicate that a patent has been applied for on a particular device. It does not mean that the manufacturer has patent rights, nor does iti indicate that the device eventually will get a patent. The "Patent Pending" mark is used by confident and not-so-contident inventors and manuracturers to tell the world that they have established a paper trail of documentation that ends with a patent application. It means they are seeking protection and have filed the appropriate paperwork to get a patent. Only those people who have actually applied f ...
