CFC: Combined Federal Campaign is an annual government-wide campaign for charitable contributions from federal employees.
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CEAR: Certificate of Excellence in Accountability Reporting.
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CD: A type of form designation such as Form CD435, meaning a Commerce Department form.
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CBM: Covered Business Method
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CAO: Chief Administrative Officer.
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Canceled Registration: Trademark registration that's no longer active, so the owner no longer benefits from the rights that come with a federal registration.
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C&A: Certification and Accreditation.
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Bypass Continuing Application: A continuing application filed under 35 USC 111(a) claiming domestic benefit to an international application under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
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BRM: Business Reference Model is an organized, hierarchical way to describe the day-to-day business operations of the federal government; this model presents the business using a functionally driven approach regardless of organizational structure.
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BPAIIS: Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences Information System (replaced by PTAB E2E).
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BPAI: Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (since 2012 Patent Trial and Appeal Board).
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Boolean: Boolean logic (named for the British-born Irish mathematician George Boole) express relationships in logic arguments using the following three operators: "and", "or", "not".
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BIA: Business Impact Analysis.
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Bayh-Dole Act: Federal Legislation enacted this act in 1980. It was made effective in 1981 and gives ownership rights of discoveries made using federal funds to universities and certain non-profit institutions.
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Background Technology: Sometimes called "Underlying Technology," technology already in existence that is required for creation, use or most efficient use of your innovation.
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Authorized Attorney or Practitioner (trademarks): An attorney who is an active member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of any U.S. state who represents an applicant, registrant, or party in a trademark matter before the USPTO.
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Assignment Recordation Branch (ARB): Helps with issues relating to new assignments or obtaining information relating to a pending assignment, as well as questions about assignments, liens on patents, and filing assignments recordation forms.
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Assignment Center: The system used to submit trademark assignments and ownership change documents for name changes or when a trademark has been transferred to a new owner.
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Assignment (trademarks): A transfer of ownership of a trademark in an application or registration.
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Assignment (patent): In general, the act of transferring to another the ownership of one's property, i.e., the interest and rights to the property.
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