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
The Ant and the Aardvark The complete series was digitally remastered and issued on its own single-disc DVD collection by MGM Home Entertainment/20th Century Fox Home Entertainment in 2007 as "Pink Panther and Friends, Volume 5: The Ant and the Aardvark". The complete series reappeared in January 2009 as part of the DVD collection "Pink Panther & Friends Classic Cartoon Collection" by MGM Home Entertainment, a 9-disc DVD set containing all "Pink Panther", "Ant and the Aardvark", "Inspector" and (for the first time on DVD) "Roland and Rattfink" cartoons. "The Ant and the Aardvark" was released onto Region 1/A Blu-ray and DVD on 27 April