OT: "Pat Pending"

Yeah, smart, but never made much on any of those inventions. That's why he keeps trying and trying.

Not a 'he'. It's short for Patricia.

Didn't Pat Pending appear on the Batman and Robin show way back when, too ???

Can be short for Patrick! No shortage of male "Pats" where I grew up around South Boston.

also commonly heard elsewhere around here as short for the New England Patriots. or in the local patios "Da Pawts."

No he was a character in Whacky Races, Prof Pat Pending

It was more fun when there was a patent number as well since you could then examine how things had been done. Many pat pendings were bluffs.

I admit though I am a product of my staunchly patriarchal culture and the thought that a lady could have invented all that stuff didn't occur to me at age 8.

Hong Kong Phooey, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Grape Ape, and Whacky Races were still in the 6 AM weekday timeslot sometimes on my local OTA station back in the mid 80s but that character I don't recall. I have some familiarity with the classics though

He went bad, fell in with Bill Posters and Lou Knee.

Not Terry Wrist or Al Kider? No problems with Nick Teen or Al K. Hall?

CH

The Pending family had an average IQ of 200 but never became rich because, as with many geniuses, they had no talent for management.

I miss BBC radio's "I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue" (ISIHAC) and their "Mr and Mrs and their Son/Daughter etc etc" round...

Mike.

The Uxbridge English Dictionary is a good approximation :)

Nah, he was the guy on Laugh In who was always running for president.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

IANAL but I work with them a fair amount.

Over here there's a marking requirement: the item has to have the patent number (or "patent pending" before issuance). Otherwise in general you can't collect damages arising from sales before you notified the infringer about your patent.

"Patent pending" doesn't provide that benefit, but does at least notify your competitors that they should do their due diligence. (In NY, it's surprisingly hard to use "due diligence" in a sentence without it sounding like "doo-doo".) ;)

There's a useful article on marking at

Cheers

Phil "It's pronounced 'dyoo'" Hobbs

Pat Paulsen

Yeah, that's him.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Bill Sender gets more packages then anyone else in the world

And who is that Bill Sender guy who supplies me with all sort of goodies from Mouser? He might be a good friend of your Patrick Pending, methinks.

Best regards, Piotr

When my kids went to school they always told me about their two new best friends : Art and Jim.