PLEC
Patent Licensing and Enforcement Company, a company specializing in owning …
PMDA
Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Agency, centralized Japanese agency responsible for …
PMI
The Project Management Institute, an organization that seeks to promote …
Point of Contact Clause
See Single Point of Contact (SPC) Clause
Poison Pill
Refers to an array of anti-takeover defenses that a company …
Pollution, Intellectual Property
Describes the inclusion of third party intellectual property in a …
Portmanteau
A word made up by combining two known words, for …
Posthumous Work
A work published after the author’s death. Being a posthumous …
POTS
Acronym for Plain Old Telephone(ny) Services, i.e., analogue voice telephony.
Power-by-the-Hour
Refers to a type of contract. The first widely reported …