Postcard Receipt: A self-addressed, stamped postcard with itemized list of parts of patent application and number of pages per MPEP 503; used as a receipt for what was submitted in an application.
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POIS: Patent Cooperation Treaty Operations Imaging System.
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PMO: Program Management Office.
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PMA: President's Management Agenda.
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Plant Application (Patent): Applications to protect invented or discovered, asexually reproduced plant varieties.
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Plaintiff: The party who files a lawsuit against another party.
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PKI: Public Key Infrastructure is a system of administrative procedures and methods, combined with secure information technologies, that is used to manage secure electronic commerce. Helps securely identify participants in electronic transactions as well as secure transmission and handling of data.
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PG Pub: Pre-Grant Publication of patent application at 18 months from priority date.
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Petitions, Office of (patent matters): Reviews and decides petitions, requests, and related inquiries, regarding the filing of patent applications, revival of abandoned applications, reinstatement of expired patents, withdrawal of patent applications from issue, small entity entitlement, review of previous decisions of the Technology Centers, suspension of regulations, and questions not specifically provided for by regulations.
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Petitions (patent matters): Petitions regarding the filing of patent applications, revival of abandoned applications, reinstatement of expired patents, withdrawal of patent applications from issue, small entity entitlement, review of previous decisions of the Technology Centers, suspension of regulations, and questions not specifically provided for by regulations are administered by the Office of Petitions within the Office of Patent Examination Policy.
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Petition: A petition is a signed, written request for specific relief presented to the office.
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Person: For purposes of small entity determination per MPEP 509.02, a person is defined as any inventor or other individual (e.g., an individual to whom an inventor has transferred some rights in the invention), who has not assigned, granted conveyed, or licensed, and is under no obligation under contract or law to assign, grant, convey, or license any rights in the invention.
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Perpetuity: Legal term meaning forever.
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Performing Rights Society: An organization that manages public performance licenses of nondramatic musical works for the copyright owners.
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Perform: To adhere to and fulfill the terms of an obligation.
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PEAI: The Patent Enterprise Access Integration will provide full content access within the IFW by USPTO personnel and customers as well as full content access to EPO and JPO.
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PDX: The electronic Priority Document Exchange program between national intellectual property offices used to streamline and simplify applicant's requirement to provide copies of priority documents.
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PDF: Portable Document Format - a common proprietary document format from Adobe used for documents having mixtures of text and images that preserves the look and feel of a printed page and permits the user to zoom and magnify the pages when viewing; not "archival" because of its proprietary nature.
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PBX: Private Branch Exchange - a telephony term describing a private telephone network used within an enterprise. Users of the PBX share a certain number of outside lines for making external telephone calls.
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PBG Final Rule: Patent Business Goals Final Rule - implement streamlined patent practice; a result of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999.
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