The term patent pending basically means that your rights commence from your filing date all the way through the time leading up to your eventual acceptance letter from the USPTO.  

It used to be the case that filing provisional applications was the way to go. Oftentimes, these Provisional patent applications were drafted by the applicant, and then express mailed on over to the P...

In order to properly use any tool you need to know what it does.  You should know its strengths and weaknesses.  The same holds true for Intellectual Property, namely, Patents, Trademarks and Copyrigh...