Pending has the following parts of speech and meanings in the use of specific sentences:
1, stand by. (preposition) waiting for the full stop of; until ...
He was released on bail, pending further investigation.
He was released on bail, pending further investigation.
2. (adjective) undetermined; To be determined; Pending?
The cause of death is listed as undetermined.
The cause of death is listed as undetermined.
3. (adjective) about to happen; Is it about to happen?
More and more customers are asking about the upcoming price increase.
More and more customers are asking about the upcoming price increase.
Extended data
1. U.S. patents include inventions, designs and new plant varieties:
1. American invention patent: 20 years from the date of filing, and the maintenance fee shall be paid in the third and a half years, seven and a half years and eleven and a half years from the date of registration. The scope of protection relates to the patent of the composition or the method of using the composition, and its validity can be extended to 5 years at the longest.
2. American design patents: fourteen years from the date of registration. You can still file a patent application within six months after publication. This is a big difference between American patent novelty judgment and China patent).
3. Patents of new plant varieties: 20 years from the date of application, and maintenance fees shall be paid in the third, seventh and eleventh years from the date of registration.
Two. Materials to be submitted when applying for a US patent:
1, American patent application for invention and design:
(1) description, patent application part and attached drawings;
(2) affidavit and power of attorney;
(3) small individual declaration (the applicant is an individual, or a small enterprise with less than 500 employees, or a non-profit organization).
2. Provisional application:
(1) Description, drawings and names, addresses and nationalities of all inventors;
(2) personal declaration.
3. Priority of claim:
If the same invention (or design) has been applied in other Paris Convention countries, and the original application date is claimed in the United States, an application shall be filed with the United States Patent Office within one year (the design is half a year) from the date of filing the first foreign application (including Taiwan Province Province).
4. Novelty requirements (principle of first invention and principle of one-year preferential period)
An invention loses its novelty if it is patented in the United States or other countries or published in publications, or publicly used or sold in the United States for more than one year; On the other hand, if it is less than one year, it still has the novelty of applying for a patent.
Baidu Encyclopedia-American Patent System