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 Visitor (TV series) character is travelling to different locations in each episode, the show doesn't feature a large cast of primary characters. Similarly to shows like "The X-Files", most episodes feature a supporting cast that appears for just a single scene. The Visitor (TV series) The Visitor is an American science fiction television series created by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin which aired on Fox from 1997–98. It starred John Corbett as Adam McArthur who was abducted by extraterrestrials 50 years earlier and escapes back to Earth to help improve life for humanity. The series was created in parallel with the world's first