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We all use them – acronyms, technical terms, jargon – but what exactly do they mean? Use the glossary below to find out. Let us know, if we are missing any terms that could be helpful to you and other BPCouncil members.

A

Active Tag Ad Valorem Tariff Agile Reader American Cybersquatting Protection Act Andean Community Appellate Body Appellation of Controlled Origin Appellation of Origin Arbitrary Marks Artistic Works Assignment Audio Home Recording Act Authentication Author Automatic Identification Automatic Identification and Data Capture Awareness

B

Back to Back Copying Bar Code Basic Patent Berne Convention Bill of Lading Biopiracy BitTorrent BitTorrent Board of Appeal Bootleg Border Protection Botnet Brand Brand Architecture Brand Commitment Brand Earnings Brand Equity Brand Essence Brand Experience Brand Extension Brand Harmonization Brand Identity Brand Image Brand Licensing Brand Management Brand Parity Brand Personality Brand Positioning Brand Strategy Brand Valuation Brand Values Branding Brown bagging BSD-style Budget Brand Budget Label

C

Cable Equipment Piracy Cable Piracy Cable Signal Theft Cairns Group Card Operating System Cargo Caricom Cease and Desist Letter Certificate of Authenticity Certificate Of Registration Certification Marks Cession Character Merchandising Chartered Patent Agent Checksum Chipless RFID Tag Circle-R Circumvention Devices Claims Clearance (of Goods) Clickwrap Closed Source Closed-loop Systems Co-branding Collecting Society Collective Mark Collective Work Commercial Presence Commissioning a Tag Common Agricultural Policy Community Design Community Standards Community Trademark Compatibility Compilation Compliance Check Compulsory Licenses Concentrator Consignee Contactless smart card Contraband Convention on the Grant of European Patents Copy Copy Cat Copy Tower Copyleft Copyright Copyright Infringement Copyright Notice Copyright Violation Counterfeit Counterfeit Trademark Goods Counterfeiting Cross-Docking Cross-license Customs Duty Customs Law Cyber-Squatting Cyclic Redundancy Check

D

Data field protection Dead Tag Decoders Description Descriptive Mark Design Patent Differential Product Advantage Differentiation Differentiator Digital Certificates Digital Millennium Copyright Act Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act Digital Rights Management Digital rights management (DRM) Disclaimer Dispute Resolution Service Provider Distinctive Mark Distinctness Distribute Distribution Franchise Diversion Doctrine of Equivalent Doctrine of Exhaustion Double Patenting Downloadable Media Drawings Dumb Reader Duplication Facility Duration

E

E-pedigree Eco-Patent Commons Economic Rights Economy line Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memor... Electronic article surveillance Electronic Pedigree Electronic Product Code Encryption End User End User License Agreement EPC 2000 Error Correcting Code European Article Number European Patent Classification European Patent Convention European Patent Convention (EPC) European Patent Office European Patent Organisation Exception of Prior Possession Exception of Prior Use Excite Exclusive License Exclusive Rights Exhaustion of Rights Export

F

Factory Programming Fair Dealing Fair Use Fanciful Marks Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) Field Programming Field-programmable Tag File sharing First To File First To Invent Flexography Franchising Fraudulent Registration Free Trade Free/ Open Source Software Freely Redistributable

G

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Generic Drugs Generic Name Generic Terms Genericide Geographical Indication GNU General Public Licence Goods Goods Infringing Design Right Goods Infringing Patents Gravure Printing Gray Market Green Dot Greenwashing Grey Market Grey Product

H

Hard-disk loading

I

Identity Fraud Illegal Illegal Duplication Facilities Illicit Indication of Source Industrial Design