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
Star Wolf (TV series) feature length film for American television under the title "Fugitive Alien". "Fugitive Alien" was released directly to television in 1988 by King Features Entertainment which ran at 102 minutes. The film was featured on Season 3 episode 10 of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" first shown on August 17, 1991. Source: Star Wolf (TV series) The show is loosely based on the three books in the "Star Wolf" series by American science fiction novelist Edmond Hamilton: "The Weapon from Beyond" (published in 1967), "The Closed Worlds" and "World of the Starwolves" (both published in 1968). The name of the main character,