| ABA |
- American Bar Association |
| ABAPI |
- Brazilian Association of Industrial Property Agents |
| ABPI |
- Brazilian Association of Industrial Property |
| ACP |
- Administrative Challenge Panel |
| ACPAA |
- All-China Patent Agents Association |
| ACPI |
- Association des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle (French Association of FICPI) |
| ADR |
- Alternative Dispute Resolution |
| AGESORPI |
- Association of Spanish Attorneys before International Industrial and Intellectual Property Organisations |
| AIPLA |
- American Intellectual Property Law Association |
| AIPO |
- Australian Intellectual Property Office |
| AIPPI |
- International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property |
| APNIC |
- Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre |
| APAA |
- Asian Patent Attorneys Association |
| ARIN |
- American Registry for Internet Numbers |
| ASEAN-IP |
- ASEAN Intellectual Property Association |
| ASIPI |
- Asociación Interamericana de la Propiedad
Intelectual |
| BEST |
- Bringing Search and Examination Together (an EPO initiative) |
| BusinessEurope |
= new name of 'UNICE, the voice of business in Europe' |
| CEIPI |
- Le Centre d'Etude Internationales de la Propriété Industrielle |
| CEO |
- Chief Executive Officer |
| CET |
(= FICPI specific acronym) - Study & Works Commission |
| CIPA |
- Chartered Institute of Patent Agents (UK) |
| CNCPI |
- Compagnie Nationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle (French profession) |
| Collegio |
- Collegio Italiano dei Consulenti in Proprietà Industriale (Italian Association of FICPI) |
| CPA |
- Continued Prosecution Application |
| CPC |
- Community Patent Convention |
| CPI |
- Conseil en Propriété Industrielle |
| CTM |
- Community Trade Mark |
| CTMR |
- Community Trade Mark Registration |
| DGXV |
- Directorate General XV |
| DNS |
- Domain Name System |
| EBA |
- Enlarged Board of Appeal (Instance within the EPO giving opinions
on points of law) |
| EC |
- European Community |
| ECJ |
- European Court of Justice |
| EP |
- European Patent |
| EPC |
- European Patent Convention |
| epi |
- Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office |
| EPO |
- European Patent Office |
| EU |
- European Union |
| EUCOF |
(= FICPI specific acronym) - European Union Members Commission of FICPI |
| Euro-SEAD |
(= FICPI specific acronym) - European version of the SEAD training course (see below), a FICPI training initiative |
| EXCO |
(= FICPI specific acronym) - Executive Committee (N.B. often used in the sense of "Executive Committee Meeting") |
| GATT |
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| gTLDs |
- Generic Top Level Domains |
| IAB |
- Internet Architecture Board |
| IANA |
- Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
| ICC |
- International Chamber of Commerce |
| IDS |
- Information Disclosure Statement |
| IGC |
- Inter Governmental Conference (relating to inter alia genetic
resources and benefit sharing) |
| INPI |
- stands for both the French patent office and the Portuguese one. French: Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle; Portuguese: Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial |
| IP |
- Intellectual Property |
| IP Australia |
- Australian Intellectual Property Organisation, encompassing the Australian Patent Office, Trade Marks Office and Designs Office |
| IPO |
- Industry group representing U.S. business |
| IPONZ |
- former NZ Patent Office |
| IPTA |
- Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia |
| JFBA |
- Japan Federation of Bar Associations |
| JIPA |
- Japan Intellectual Property Association |
| JIPO |
- Japanese Intellectual Property Owners |
| JPO |
- Japanese Patent Office |
| JPAA |
- Japanese Patent Attorneys Association |
| KIPO |
- Korean Intellectual Property Office |
| KPAA |
- Korean Patent Attorneys Association |
| MIPEX |
(= FICPI specific acronym) - Message Based Industrial Property Information Exchange |
| MoU |
- Memorandum of Understanding |
| MSBA |
- Meeting between members of SACEPO and the Boards of Appeal of the
EPO |
| NAFTA |
- North American Free Trade Agreement |
| NDR |
- Board for Domain Name Rules (Sweden) |
| NEWCO |
- short for: New Company |
| NGOs |
- Non-governmental Organisations |
| OAMI |
- The Spanish acronym for OHIM (Oficina de Armonización del mercado interior) |
| OHIM |
- The Office for Harmonisation of the Internal Market |
| OECD |
- Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| PAK |
- Patentanwaltskammer, also known as 'Kammer' (German Association of FICPI) |
| PCT |
- Patent Cooperation Treaty |
| PLT |
- Patent Law Treaty |
| PTO |
- Patent and Trade Mark Office |
| RIPE |
- Réseaux Internet Proficer Européens |
| SACEPO |
- Standing Advisory Committee before the European Patent Office |
| SCP |
- Standing Committee on Patent Law (WIPO) |
| SEAD |
- South East Asian Drafting Training Course (a FICPI training initiative) |
| SMEs |
- Small and medium size enterprises |
| SPC |
- Supplementary Protection Certificate |
| SPLAT |
- The same as SPLT but less frequently used |
| SPLT |
- Substantive Patent Law Treaty |
| SPOF |
- Swedish Association of Patent Attorneys (Swedish Association of FICPI) |
| SPTO |
- Spanish Patent and Trademark Office |
| TEC |
(= FICPI specific acronym) - Teaching and Education Commission of FICPI |
| TLD |
- Top Level Domain |
| ccTLD |
- Country Code Top Level Domain |
| gTLD |
- Generic Top Level Domain |
| TLT |
- Trademark Law Treaty |
| TRIPS |
- Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights |
| UKIPO |
- UK Intellectual Property Office (previously 'The Patent Office') |
| UNICE |
- renamed "BusinessEurope" - see above |
| UNION |
- UNION of European Practioners in Industrial Property |
| UPOV |
- International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants |
| USPTO |
- United States Patent and Trade Mark Office |
| VSP |
- Verband Schweizerischer Patent- und Markenanwälte (or Association Suisse des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle, Swiss Association of FICPI) |
| WIPO |
- World Intellectual Property Organization |
| WTO |
- World Trade Organisation |
| WWW |
- World Wide Web |