PATENT PENDING
A POCKET MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INVENTION
Fly through 235 years of ideas as a living galaxy. Rotate the machines that built the modern world. Then check the signal on your own.
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The Patent Universe
1790
every star is a year's real patent grants
CURATED BY CHICAGO PATENT LAW
1790 2025
The museum

Machines you can hold

Eight patents rebuilt as living 3D models. Watch each one draw itself from the blueprint, then spin it with your finger.
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The check

Could this be a patent?

Seven questions, ninety seconds. You get a signal read, not a sales pitch. Nothing you tap leaves this phone.
The clocks

Deadlines that don't forgive

Set your real dates. Patent law runs on unforgiving clocks; now they're on your side of the glass.
Patent Pending

The vault, the firm, the fine print

The Vault

Capture an invention the moment it happens. Notes live only on this device.

The Radar · for counsel

Live competitive intelligence from the US patent record: any company's filing history and technology mix, or any field's most active players — pulled fresh while you watch. Built for founders, in-house teams, and fellow attorneys.

About the firm

Patent Pending is built by Chicago Patent Law LLC: engineering-grade patent counsel for AI, software, and hardware companies. Flat fees, quoted in writing, before any work begins.

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Data & credits

Grant counts: USPTO statistical tables (1790–2020) and IFI CLAIMS analyses (2021–2025). Museum exhibits verified against original patent records at Google Patents. 3D models are illustrative reconstructions. Live patent search powered by the PatentsView API (USPTO research datasets). Music generated on-device. Full sources listed at chicagopatent.law/patent-pending.

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The Radar

Live reads from the US patent record, as of right now.

Capture an idea