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  1. Administrative Instructions
  2. Annex F
  3. appeal (trademark)
  4. application (trademark)
  5. benefit claim
  6. bio-sequence listings
  7. blackout period
  8. BPAIIS
  9. cancellation proceeding
  10. canceled (patent)
  11. canceled claim
  12. CEAR
  13. certificate of mailing
  14. certificate of registration
  15. CFO/CAO
  16. classification of goods and services
  17. combination patent
  18. common inventor
  19. common law rights
  20. composed of
  21. confirmation number
  22. Contracting State
  23. continued use
  24. Control No.
  25. current filing basis
  26. customer number
  27. Design Code Search Manual
  28. design patent application
  29. DiD
  30. disclosure document
  31. domestic representative
  32. eDAN
  33. EFS-ABX
  34. electronic file wrapper
  35. enforceability of patent
  36. eTAS
  37. eTEAS
  38. examination copy
  39. examiner's amendment
  40. examining attorney
  41. excusable nonuse
  42. express abandonment
  43. extension request
  44. Fastener Quality Act
  45. FFMIA
  46. file wrapper
  47. filing basis
  48. filing receipt
  49. FMFIA
  50. GICP
  51. Group Art Unit
  52. home copy
  53. identification of goods and/or services
  54. IFW
  55. incontestability
  56. informal application
  57. intent to use
  58. issue date (patent)
  59. JCCT
  60. joint application
  61. kind codes
  62. Markush doctrine
  63. MiTEAS
  64. national stage application
  65. Native American Tribal Insignia
  66. NIPLECC
  67. NOCC
  68. nonprovisional patent application
  69. non-responsive amendment
  70. normal publication
  71. notice of abandonment
  72. notice of allowability
  73. notice of allowance and fees due
  74. notice of allowance
  75. notice of publication
  76. notice of references cited
  77. OACS
  78. OBRA
  79. OEIP
  80. OG - Patents
  81. OG - Trademarks
  82. OIIP
  83. OIPE
  84. OLIA (superceded)
  85. original application
  86. original filing basis
  87. PAIR
  88. PASAT
  89. Patent and Trademark Depository Library
  90. patent application publication
  91. patent number
  92. payor number
  93. PBG Final Rule
  94. PCT Regulations
  95. PEAI
  96. petitions (patent matters)
  97. petition to revive an application (trademark matters)
  98. plant application (patent)
  99. POIS
  100. postcard receipt
  101. PPAC
  102. precautionary designation
  103. primary examiner
  104. PrinTEAS
  105. prior art (reference)
  106. priority action
  107. pseudo mark
  108. PSIPS
  109. PTDL
  110. PTOL
  111. publication for opposition
  112. publication number
  113. record copy
  114. recordation form cover sheet
  115. reference (prior art)
  116. registration number
  117. reissue application
  118. rejoinder
  119. representation of mark
  120. REPS
  121. Request (PCT)
  122. request for extension of time to file a statement of use
  123. request to reinstate an application
  124. search copy
  125. Section 8 Declaration of Continued Use
  126. Section 8 Declaration of Excusable Nonuse
  127. Section 9 Renewal Application
  128. Section 15 Declaration of Incontestability
  129. sequence listing
  130. series code
  131. service component
  132. SFFAC
  133. SFFAS
  134. SITP
  135. small business concern
  136. small entity
  137. standard character format
  138. statement of net cost
  139. statement of use
  140. statutory disclaimer
  141. stylized mark
  142. subsequent designation
  143. substantive reasons for refusal
  144. substitute patent application
  145. surcharge due
  146. suspension letter
  147. suspension inquiry letter
  148. TARR
  149. Technology Center
  150. TEAS
  151. TICRS
  152. TLT
  153. TPAC
  154. TPostal
  155. Trademark Act
  156. Trademark Application and Registration Retrieval
  157. Trademark Electronic Application System
  158. Trademark Electronic Search System
  159. TW@H
  160. typed mark
  161. use-based application
  162. use in commerce
  163. utility patent application
  164. window close
  165. window open
  166. withdrawn claim
  167. withdrawn patent
  168. workflow incoming amendment IFW