As we used to say "Do you walk to school or do you carry your lunch?"

The question is a non-sequitur. Being granted a patent has absolutely nothing to do with your freedom to operate. Your patent affects other's freedom to operate. Your patent confers no positive rights for you to do anything.

The only way your patent application process impacts your freedom to operate is since your invention is published, no one else can get a patent. Your invention being published does provide you freedom from a third party getting a patent.

After publication, you getting the patent affects others freedom to operate but does not change your freedom to operate. If your application was published but not granted you would be in the same position regarding what you might or might not be able to do.

As we used to say "Do you walk to school or do you carry your lunch?"

The question is a non-sequitur. Being granted a patent has absolutely nothing to do with your freedom to operate. Your patent affects others' freedom to operate. Your patent confers no positive rights for you to do anything.

The only way your patent application process impacts your freedom to operate is since your invention is published, no one else can get a patent. Your invention being published does provide you freedom from a third party getting a patent.

After publication, you getting the patent affects others' freedom to operate but does not change your freedom to operate. If your application was published but not granted you would be in the same position regarding what you might or might not be able to do - assuming a patent was not issued to another in spite of your publication.

As we used to say "Do you walk to school or do you carry your lunch?"

The question is a non-sequitur. Being granted a patent has absolutely nothing to do with your freedom to operate. Your patent affects other's freedom to operate. Your patent confers no positive rights for you to do anything.

The only way your patent application process impacts your freedom to operate is since your invention is published, no one else can get a patent. Your invention being published does provide you freedom from a third party getting a patent.

After publication, you getting the patent affects others freedom to operate by does not change your freedom to operate. If your application was published but not granted you would be in the exact same position regarding what you might or might not be able to do.

As we used to say "Do you walk to school or do you carry your lunch?"

The question is a non-sequitur. Being granted a patent has absolutely nothing to do with your freedom to operate. Your patent affects other's freedom to operate. Your patent confers no positive rights for you to do anything.

The only way your patent application process impacts your freedom to operate is since your invention is published, no one else can get a patent. Your invention being published does provide you freedom from a third party getting a patent.

After publication, you getting the patent affects others freedom to operate but does not change your freedom to operate. If your application was published but not granted you would be in the same position regarding what you might or might not be able to do.