Notices
Rodent Trax™
A product of PestCMS. These notices are not a substitute for a lawyer. They are what the site can say honestly before a patent is on file.
What is protected today
Rodent Trax™ is used as a trademark of PestCMS. The ™ means a claim of trademark rights. It is not a federal registration. Do not use ® until the mark is registered.
© 2026 PestCMS. All rights reserved. The site, the operator app, the copy, the product photographs, the logo, the housing design, and the firmware are proprietary. Do not copy them, resell the puck design, or ship a lookalike under another name.
Questions go to info@pestcms.ai or (877) 378-2416.
Why this page does not say Patent Pending
U.S. law treats “patent,” “patent pending,” and “patent applied for” as a statement that an application is actually on file. Marking a product before that filing is false marking. The words go on the site, the housing, and the packaging the day the USPTO filing receipt exists. Not before.
A draft provisional specification is ready for a patent attorney. It describes the puck: a lid-mounted module that wakes on motion and uses a stored interior distance to tell a pass-through from an animal that stayed. It is not posted on this site. Publishing the draft would disclose the invention.
File it this week
- Have a patent attorney read the draft before it is submitted. This page is not that review.
- Create an account at Patent Center and verify your identity. Guest filing is closed.
- File a provisional application with the specification and a cover sheet. The provisional fee is $65 for a micro entity, $130 for a small entity, or $325 otherwise.
- Micro entity is not automatic. It requires the income and prior-application limits on the USPTO micro entity form. If PestCMS or another company will own the patent, that company’s income counts.
- Name the real inventor. List the company as the applicant only after the inventor assigns it.
- Save the filing receipt. Then we put Patent Pending on the site and on the housing.
A provisional is not a patent. It holds a date for 12 months. A nonprovisional has to be filed before that year ends or the date is lost. Shipping the site to the public can start a one-year U.S. clock and can end patent rights in other countries, so file before the sales push, not after.