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patent pending
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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If I pay someone to work on my invention, can I still patent the idea?
I have an idea to patent a product that I think will sell; however, this product has electronic circuitry, which I'm not capable of producing because of my lack of electronics knowledge. Can I patent an idea and pay someone like an electronic engineer or a manufacturer to produce it and still be the patent owner?
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