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The glossary, like the AI RMF, is non-sector specific and use-case agnostic, designed to be flexible for all organizations and sectors of society to use. A document describing the motivation and development of the glossary is also being released.

The goal of this common vocabulary is not to declare one specific meaning for identified terms, but to provide interested parties with a broader awareness of the multiple meanings of commonly used terms within the interdisciplinary field of Trustworthy and Responsible AI.

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Application Assistance Unit - the call center that serves the Office of Patent Application Processing (OPAP) and Office of Data Management (ODM) providing assistance with questions relating to: filing receipts; missing parts letters; pre-examination and the post-examination abandonment notices; express abandonments; change/withdrawal of attorney; change of address; and Power of Attorney. Can assist if you need to check on the status of an application that is in the pre-examination or the post-examination phase of processing.

American Bankers Association number - often referred to as the "transit routing number," is the nine digit electronic address of a financial institution. The ABA number is encoded in the MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) line of all checks, and is assigned to each financial institution and each branch office of that financial institution.

Abandonment may be either of the invention or of a patent application. An abandoned patent application, in accordance with 37 CFR 1.135 and 1.138, is one which is removed from the office docket of pending applications. A patent application becomes abandoned for failure to file a complete and proper reply as the condition of the application may require within the time period provided under 37 CFR 1.134 and 1.136 unless an office action indicates otherwise.

Activity based cost accounting - an accrual-based accounting method for determining unit-based costs of delivering services by allocating the costs to budgetary resources; it measures the performance and costs related to a specific activity or function.

Activity based management - a management methodology that combines ABC with business process analysis techniques to run, improve, and measure performance for a business or organization.

Automated Biotechnology Sequence Search - system designed to search electronic sequence listing data submitted by applicants and molecular sequences using applicant submissions and commercial databases of published sequence information.

A USPTO Manual that lists acceptable identifications of goods and services. Applicants can use an ID Manual listing in their trademark application if the listing accurately reflects their goods or services.

Refers to the Administrative Instructions established by the Director General of WIPO under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) or under the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs (Hague Agreement). The Administrative Instructions set out the provisions and requirements in relation to the filing and processing of international applications under the PCT and of international design applications and international registrations under the Hague Agreement.

(May be referred to as a practitioner or representative.) An individual who is registered to practice before the office who is not an attorney but is authorized to act for or on behalf of the applicant(s).

The Automated Interview Request (AIR) form is a way for applicants to schedule an interview using the Internet, e.g., an alternative to leaving an examiner voicemail to schedule an interview. After the form is submitted, the examiner will respond to confirm the request or propose a new date/time. The examiner may request additional information, e.g., requesting an agenda if one is not provided. The AIR form links to form SB/0439 which can be used for internet authorization.

An individual person or juristic entity (such as a corporation, partnership, joint venture, or association) who owns or has a bona fide intent to use a trademark with specific goods or services and has applied to federally register it

The Contracting Party or one of the Contracting Parties from which the applicant derives its entitlement to file an international design application under the Hague Agreement by virtue of satisfying, in relation to that Contracting Party, at least one of the conditions specified in Article 3 of the Hague Agreement (nationality, domicile, habitual residence, or a real and effective industrial or commercial establishment). Where there are two or more Contracting Parties from which the applicant may, under Article 3, derive its entitlement to file an international design application, "applicant's Contracting Party" means the one which, among those Contracting Parties, is indicated as such in the international design application.

The system used to submit trademark assignments and ownership change documents for name changes or when your trademark has been transferred to a new owner. We use Assignment Center submissions to update your application or registration record to reflect these changes.

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.

Authority to operate - after completing a security assessment, the head of an agency (or their designee) can authorize the system for use, or grant an authority to operate (ATO). An agency grants an ATO according to a risk-based framework that analyzes how a vendor has implemented the security controls within their IT environment.

(May be referred to as a practitioner or representative.) An individual who is a member in good standing of the bar of any United States court or the highest court of any State and who is registered to practice before the office.

The patent search systems use "AND", "OR", and "ANDNOT" as Boolean operators, in combination with parentheses to build nested logical subsets - example: needle ANDNOT ((record AND player) OR sewing), which would return anything with the word "needle" in a document as long as it does not also contain the word "record" and "player" in the same document or the word "sewing" in the same document. It also uses some symbols such as "->" to indicate a range, where you enter the field code and start date, ->, and then the end date - example: ISD/1/1/1995->2/14/1995.

Business reference model: 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.

Trademark registration that's no longer active, so the owner no longer benefits from the rights that come with a federal registration. Common causes include failing to file a required maintenance document, a cancellation proceeding at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, or a civil court action.

A certificate for each piece of correspondence mailed used to determine whether the correspondence was deposited within the filing period, on or prior to the expiration of the set period of time for response, stating the date of deposit with the U.S. Postal Service, transmitted by facsimile or transmitted via the USPTO electronic filing system Patent Center and including a signature. If the date stated is within the period for reply, the reply in most instances will be considered to be timely. This is true even if the paper does not actually reach the office until after the end of the period for reply. The certificate of mailing procedure may not be used for certain filings described in 37 CFR 1.8(a)(2) or when sending mail to the USPTO from a foreign country.

A type of mark that identifies goods or services that meet certain standards set by another person or organization (such as quality, material, or accuracy standards), or indicates that members of a union or organization worked on the goods or provided the service. Like trademarks, certification marks can be words, phrases, symbols, designs, or a combination of these things.

The first phase under the Patent Cooperation Treaty that includes performance of an international-type search and issuance of an international search report and written opinion by the International Searching Authority, and publication of the international application and international search report by the International Bureau of WIPO. The content of the written opinion is made available by the International Bureau to the designated offices in the form of an International Preliminary Report on Patentability (Chapter I) after the expiration of 30 months from the priority date, unless it is superseded by the issuance of an International Preliminary Report on Patentability (Chapter II).

The second, optional, phase under the Patent Cooperation Treaty that is initiated with the timely filing of a demand for international preliminary examination. Chapter II culminates in the issuance of an international preliminary report on patentability (Chapter II) which provides a preliminary, non-binding opinion on whether the claimed invention appears to be novel, to involve an inventive step and to be industrially applicable.

Defines the invention for which patent protection is sought. The specification must conclude with a claim particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention or discovery. The claim or claims must conform to the invention as set forth in the remainder of the specification and the terms and phrases used in the claims must find clear support or antecedent basis in the description so that the meaning of the terms in the claims may be clearly understood by reference to the description. (See 37 CFR 1.75).

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