Patent pending an offense, which permits theoretical damages in the hundreds of millions of dollars for high-volume consumer goods. The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act revised section 292 to say that only the United States may sue for that penalty but that a person who has suffered a competitive injury may sue for recovery of damages adequate to compensate for the injury. A provisional application, like any other patent application, also allows the applicant to use the term "patent pending". Numerous characters have assumed the name Pat Pending since at least the 1960s, notably Professor Pat Pending of cartoon series Wacky Races; the
Atom Ant Atom" is available on the DVD "Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960s Vol. 1". The episode "Atom Ant Meets Karate Ant" is available on the DVD "Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960s Vol.2". The episode "The Big Gimmick" is available on the DVD "Best of Warner Bros. 25 Cartoon Collection Hanna-Barbera". On October 6, 2015, Warner Archive released "Atom Ant: The Complete Series" on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna–Barbera Classics Collection. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and Amazon.com. In 2016, "The Atom Ant Show" was made available for download via iTunes Store. Both