1.   And since patent applications are secret in the United States until a patent is actually granted, no one knows that the patent application is pending.

2.   Applications are pending for sale of the drug in other countries, including Germany.

3.   Applications are pending with the FDA to make various medicines to treat hair loss, pain, heartburn and dandruff available without a prescription.

4.   A similar Southwestern Bell long-distance application is still pending in Missouri, where the state Public Service Commission has scheduled a meeting on the issue Wednesday.

5.   Currently, the Justice Department, if given a name, will confirm that a pardon application is pending.

6.   Eight other market-access applications are pending.

7.   He said no such applications are pending before the SEC.

8.   It has already received patents on hundreds of genes or gene fragments, and has thousands more applications pending before the patent office.

9.   It was supremely important to the Cruzes that the girls be baptized in Chinantla, so, while their residency application was pending, they flew home.

10.   Other pardon applications are pending before the Georgia board.