withdrawn patent

an allowed application for patent in which the applicant files correspondence to withdraw the patent from issue; ;thus preventing it from issuing on the patent issue date.  The printed document is sometimes available on the day of publication, but is later retracted and will not be available in the patent database.  No copy of the patent document will appear on the official USPTO web site. 

-- see 37 CFR 1.313 and 1.114 for more

Context: Patent