Acronym Glossary
- AIA
- Smith–Leahy America Invents Act of 2011
- ANDA
- Abbreviated New Drug Application
- CBM
- Covered Business Methods
- C-I-P
- continuation-in-part (patent application)
- EPA
- Environmental Protection Agency
- EPO
- European Patent Office
- FDA
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- FIPSE
- Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education
- FOIA
- Freedom of Information Act
- GATT
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- NIH
- National Institutes of Health
- NPE
- nonpracticing entity
- NSF
- National Science Foundation
- PAE
- patent assertion entity
- PCR
- polymerase chain reaction
- PCT
- Patent Cooperation Treaty
- PHOSITA
- person having ordinary skill in the art
- PTO
- Patent and Trademark Office
- TRIPS
- Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property
- TSM
- teaching–suggestion–motivation (test for obviousness)
- USPTO
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- WIPO
- World Intellectual Property Organization
- WTO
- World Trade Organization
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