Yes, that is all I was getting at -Paradigm is a distributor. I can test whether someone will sell to me by sending an email in response to the ad -to Sam Young. See if it is exclusive or not.
Yes, you get patent pending status for filing a prov patent application, but it must be followed within 1 year by the regular patent application. After that it takes about 2 years to get a decision from USPTO.
Rad Safe and Sam Young products do not seem to have patent protection.