Posted on September 15, 2010.
I completed an application for patent and copyright and trademarks on Friday, September 11, 2009a Would you advice to go ahead and try to sell my drawings and stuff .... I mean someone could still steal my ideas with patents pending or other ... thank you
If you have a receipt of deposit for official repository for patents and trademarks, that's all you need to move forward with your marketing.
Note, however, that the patent, copyright and trademark does not protect your ideas, even if they are granted. Patents protect your inventions (which may include your ideas), copyright protects your writings and other creative works (which may contain or describe your ideas) and trademarks to protect the trademark from being used unfairly by competitors or others.
In no case do any of these protect your "ideas".
That said, a "patent pending" is not good for protection if a patent is issued (usually after a long discussion), copyright is automatic (whether or not you produce something) and (U.S.) trademark rights to attach from the moment you first use a particular brand on a particular set of goods or services "in trade", which means that you sell (or offer to sell) things, and Registration is optional (but perhaps very valuable).
Depends if you have a patent number temp. It's a risky thing as an individual. Fundamentally, but if they approvd for a number of patent pending, you should be as safe as you can since the date is marked. catch is if someone has a similar patent, unless its new technology has probably already competeing some patents that are quite similar to the argument.
I think you are wrong. You might have a patent application, but there is no single application for trademark and copyright. If you have an invention you can get a provisional patent that will protect you as long as the patent is issued regularly later.