pending means that it has not yet been ISSUED as a patent, that is, patent prosecution is still ongoing between the examiner at the USPTO and the inventor or attorney handling this application. However, the published status means that it will prevent others from patenting this technology since now it has been published and therefore it is in the public domain. I have to review the prosecution history to determine what is going on at this juncture...I belive the inventor filed a CIP...which means he is still entitled to the earliest priority date and that he added new matter in the latter application.
i need to review the case history and post it here tomorrow.
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