InMed Pharmaceuticals Inc (INM)

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Regarding patents, there are reasons that a pending patent may not be published. From Wikepedia...

Patent Pending

A provisional application, like any other patent application, also allows the applicant to use the term "patent pending".

Provisional Application

Under United States patent law, a provisional application is a legal document filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), that establishes an early filing date, but does not mature into an issued patent unless the applicant files a regular non-provisional patent application within one year.

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In many cases, a provisional is filed the same day as a public disclosure of the invention, which disclosure could otherwise permanently jeopardize the patentability in non-U.S. countries having strict requirements on "complete or absolute novelty". In other cases the provisional application is filed soon after such a disclosure in order to preserve only the inventor's U.S. patent rights.

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The provisional application is also not "published", but becomes a part of any later non-provisional application file that references it, and thus becomes "public" upon issuance of a patent claiming its priority benefit.

InMed has submitted Provisional Patent Applications and thus is able to claim Patent Pending status even though nothing has been published on the USPTO website.