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The patent has been applied for but not yet awarded, i.e. the application process is pending final approval.
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It means someone has taken an existing patent and made a minor slight change in the device and now wishes it to be treated as a totally new and different patent that is exclusive to the previous one that has done all of the expensive work on it!
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