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pendent

French pendant suspended, present participle of pendre to hang, ultimately from Latin pendēre] 1 : remaining undetermined : pending [a suit] 2 : of, relating to, or being the basis of pendent jurisdiction or pendent party jurisdiction

pend

pend : to be pending [the action s as to the third party]

patent

fees than a regular application, before reducing the invention to practice. This allows the inventor to claim “patent pending” status for the invention and to establish an earlier filing date and priority of the invention. A regular

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notice of abandonment

notification from the USPTO that an application has been declared abandoned or, in other words, is no longer pending. Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

likelihood of confusion

trademark or service mark because it is likely to conflict with a mark or marks already registered or pending before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The principal factors considered in determining whether there is a

privy

having privity ;esp : one who acquires an interest in the subject matter (as property) of prior or pending litigation and is bound by the judgment as if he or she were a party to the action

intervention

of intervening ;specif : the act or procedure by which a third party becomes a party to a pending proceeding between other parties in order to protect his or her own interest in the subject matter of

in fieri

in fieri [Medieval Latin] 1 : being in the process of accomplishment : pending 2 : beginning to have existence : not yet completely formed

house of detention

house of detention :a place where prisoners and occasionally witnesses are detained pending a trial compare house of correction, jail, lockup, penitentiary, prison

ex-distribution

ex-distribution : without the right to a pending distribution (as of capital gains from a mutual fund) [shares traded ]

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