{"id":168,"date":"2021-07-14T16:05:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T15:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.91.100\/wordpress\/?page_id=168"},"modified":"2022-03-30T19:22:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T18:22:55","slug":"2-7-common-terms-and-abbreviations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/?page_id=168","title":{"rendered":"2.7 Common Terms and Abbreviations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the field of IP, there are many terms and abbreviations which are commonly used.&nbsp; Whilst&nbsp;they will soon become commonplace to you, at first they may all seem a bit mysterious!&nbsp;&nbsp;Here is a list of the most often used&nbsp;abbreviations:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>UKIPO \u2013&nbsp;UK Intellectual Property Office &#8211; (official&nbsp;body&nbsp;where UK patents, trademarks and designs&nbsp;are registered)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>OHIM\u00a0\u2013 Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (the official body for European Community trademarks and designs, now called EUIPO)<\/em><\/li><li>EUIPO &#8211; The EU Intellectual Property Office<\/li><li>WIPO &#8211; World Intellectual Property Organisation located in Geneva, Switzerland (official body for overseas IP protection)<\/li><li>USPTO &#8211; United States Patent &amp; Trademark Office (official body in the USA)<\/li><li>CTM \u2013 Community trade mark<\/li><li>RCD &#8211; Registered Community Design<\/li><li>PCT &#8211;\u00a0 Patent Co-operation Treaty<\/li><li>EPO &#8211; European Patent Office\/Organisation<\/li><li>EPC &#8211; European Patent Convention<\/li><li>ISA &#8211; International Search Authority (relates to patent searches)<\/li><li>NoA \u2013 Notice of Allowance (applies to US TM applications)<\/li><li>NoP \u2013 Notice of Publication (applies to US TM applications)<\/li><li>EOT \u2013 extension of time<\/li><li>Madrid System &#8211; The Madrid system for the international registration of marks offers a trademark owner the possibility to have his trademark protected in several countries by simply filing one application (see\u00a0Madrid System\u00a0for more information).<\/li><li>Hague System &#8211; The Hague System for the\u00a0International Registration of Industrial Designs provides a mechanism for registering a design in countries and\/ or intergovernmental organisations party to the Hague Agreement(see\u00a0Hague System\u00a0for more information).<\/li><li>Reg cert \u2013 registration certificate<\/li><li>Tel conf \u2013 telephone conference<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/?page_id=19\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"19\">Back to\u00a0General Office Administration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the field of IP, there are many terms and abbreviations which are commonly used.&nbsp; Whilst&nbsp;they will soon become commonplace to you, at first they may all seem\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-168","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions\/428"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}