The realm of standard-essential patents and patent litigation includes many abbreviations and acronyms, ranging from the fairly common to the seemingly obscure. Here’s a non-exhaustive list for your reference.
- 2G/3G/4G – 2nd Generation, 3rd Generation, 4th Generation (in reference to cellular standards)
- 3GPP/3GPP2 – 3rd Generation Partnership Project / 3rd Generation Parternship Project 2
- ATSC – Advanced Television Systems Committee
- AVC – Advanced Video Coding
- CAFC – United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- CDMA – Code Division Multiple Access
- DOCSIS – Data Over Cable Interface Specification
- DOJ – The United States Department of Justice (also known as the USDOJ)
- DVB – Digital Video Broadcasting Project
- EC – European Commission
- EDGE – Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
- EIA – Electronic Industries Alliance
- EPO – European Patent Office
- ETSI – European Telecommunications Standards Institute
- FRAND – Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory (see also RAND)
- FTC – The United States Federal Trade Commission
- GPRS – General Packet Radio Service
- GSM – Global System for Mobile Communications
- IEC – International Electrotechnical Commission
- IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- IPR – Intellectual Property Rights
- ISO – International Organization for Standardization
- ITC – The United States International Trade Commission (also known as the USITC)
- ITU – International Telecommunication Union
- JEDEC – Joint Electronic Devices Engineering Council
- JVT – Joint Video Team
- LAN – Local Area Networking
- LTE – Long-Term Evolution (a 4G cellular standard)
- MoCA – Multimedia over Coax Alliance
- MPEG – Motion Picture Experts Group
- NIST – National Institute of Standards and Technology
- PTO – The United States Patent & Trademark Office (also known as the USPTO)
- RAND – Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (see also FRAND)
- SDO – Standards Development Organization (see also SSO)
- SEP – Standard-Essential Patent
- SSO – Standards Setting Organization (see also SDO)
- TDMA – Time Division Multiple Access
- TIA – Telecommunications Industry Association
- UMTS – Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
- WLAN – Wireless Local Area Networking