EXPLANATION OF SOME ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS OFTEN USED IN DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS ON MATTERS OF INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION
1. International Organizations and their Organs, International Treaties
ARIPO: African Regional Industrial Property Organization
BIRPI: Bureaux internationaux réunis pour la propriété intellectuelle (United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property) (predecessor of WIPO)
CCITT: Comité consultatif international télégraphique et téléphonique (International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee)
CEC/CCE: Commission of European Communities/Commission des Communautés européennes
CMEA/CAEM: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance/Conseil d’assistance économique mutuelle (ceased to exist in 1991)
EC/CE: European Communities/Communautés européennes
EPC/CBE: European Patent Convention/Convention sur le brevet européen
EPO/OEB: European Patent Organisation or European Patent Office/Organisation européenne des brevets ou Office européen des brevets
ESARIPO: Industrial Property Organization for English-speaking Africa (predecessor of ARIPO)
FID: Fédération internationale pour l’information et documentation (International Federation for Information and Documentation)
ICIREPAT: International Cooperation in Information Retrieval Among Patent Offices (predecessor of the WIPO PCPI and PCIPI)
IPC/CIB: International Patent Classification/Classification internationale des brevets
ISO: International Organization for Standardization
OAPI: Organisation africaine de la propriété intellectuelle (African Intellectual Property Organization)
OLPI: International Association of Producers and Users of On-line Patent Information
PCIPI: WIPO Permanent Committee on Industrial Property Information
PCPI: WIPO Permanent Committee on Patent Information (predecessor of the PCIPI)
PCT: Patent Cooperation Treaty
PDG: Patent Documentation Group
WIPO/OMPI: World Intellectual Property Organization/Organisation Mondiale de la Propriété Intellectuelle
2. Computer Terms
CD-DRAW: Compact Disc – Direct Read after Write
CD-I: Compact Disc – Interactive
CD-ROM: Compact Disc – Read Only Memory
DON: Disque optique numérique
EDP: Electronic Data Processing
PC: Personal Computer
ROM: Read Only Memory
WORM: Write Once – Read Many (times)
3. Other Terms and Names Relating to Industrial Property Information
ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASD: Accumulated Standardized Data
BACON: Backfile Conversion
BOPI: Bulletin officiel de la propriété industrielle (France)
BOPI: Boletín Oficial de la Propiedad Industrial (Spain)
BOPI: Buletin Oficial de Proprietate Industriala (Romania)
CAPRI: Computerized Administration of Patent Documents Reclassified according to the IPC (EPIDOS–INPADOC)
CAS: Chemical Abstracts Service
CASSIS: Classification and Search Support Information System
CCMSS: Computer Controlled Microform Search System
CPI: Central Patent Index (Derwent)
DARC: Documentation et Automatisation des Recherches et Corrélation
DBMS: Database Management System
EBCDIC: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EDT: Extended Data Tape (EPIDOS-INPADOC)
EPI: Electrical Patent Index (by Derwent)
EPR: European Patents Report (Derwent), European Patent Register
EPIDOS–INPADOC : Services offered by the former International Patent Documentation Center (now European Patent Office, Vienna Sub-office) (EPIDOS stands for European Patent Information and Documentation Systems)
FIZ: Fachinformationszentrum
IFD: Family Data Tape (EPIDOS-INPADOC)
IFI/PDC: Information for Industry/Plenum Data Company
INID: Internationally agreed Numbers for the Identification of Data
INKA: Informationssystem Karlsruhe
INL: Numerical List (EPIDOS-INPADOC)
INPADOC: International Patent Documentation Center (now European Patent Office, Vienna Sub-office)
IPG: Patent Gazette (EPIDOS-INPADOC)
ISBN: International Standard Book Number
ISSN: International Standard Serials Number
JAPIO: Japan Patent Information Organization
JIII: Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation
NDB: Numerical Database (EPIDOS-INPADOC)
PAJ: Patent Abstracts of Japan
PAP: Patent Applicant Service on Microfiche sorted by Priorities (EPIDOS-INPADOC)
PAS: Patent Applicant Service (EPIDOS-INPADOC)
PCS: Patent Classification Service (EPIDOS-INPADOC)
PFS: Patent Family Service (EPIDOS-INPADOC)
PIS: Patent Inventor Service (EPIDOS-INPADOC)
PRS: Patent Register Service (EPIDOS-INPADOC)
R&D: Research and Development
SDI: Selective Dissemination of Information
SII: Soviet Inventions Illustrated (Derwent)
SPEP: Sistema de publicación electrónica de patentes
WILA: Wilhelm Lampl K.G. Verlag für Wirtschaftswerbung
WPA: World Patents Abstracts (Derwent)
WPI(L): World Patents Index (Latest) (Derwent)