PA - see Performing Arts.

PACR - see Patent Application Capture and Retrieval.

PAIR - see Patent Application Information Retrieval.

PAJ - see Patent Abstracts of Japan.

Pass Off - see Knock Off.

Passing Off - see Knock Off.

Patent Abstracts of Japan - refers to the official patent database of the Japanese Patent Office.

Patentschrift - refers to a German patent.

PCT - see Patent Cooperation Treaty.

Perform - refers to reciting, rendering, playing, dancing, or acting, either directly or by means of any device or process or, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, showing the work's images in any sequence or to make the sounds accompanying it audible.

Performing Rights Society - refers to an association, corporation, or other entity that licenses the public performance of nondramatic musical works on behalf of copyright owners of such works, such as the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), and the Society of European Stage Authors & Composers (SESAC, Inc.).

Petty Patent - see Utility Model.

Phonorecords - refer to material objects in which sounds, other than those accompanying a motion picture or other audiovisual work, are fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the sounds can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. The term "phonorecords" includes the material object in which the sounds are first fixed.

PHOSITA - see Person Having Ordinary Skill In The Art.

Pictorial, Graphic, and Sculptural Works - refer to two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of fine, graphic, and applied art, photographs, prints and art reproductions, maps, globes, charts, diagrams, models, and technical drawings, including architectural plans. Such works include works of artistic craftsmanship insofar as their form but not their mechanical or utilitarian aspects are concerned; the design of a useful article is only be considered a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work if, and only to the extent that, such design incorporates pictorial, graphic, or sculptural features that can be identified separately from, and are capable of existing independently of, the utilitarian aspects of the article.

Pizzeria Uno Factors - refer to the prongs of the test that the Fourth Circuit uses when examining likelihood of confusion in trademark disputes. see Pizzeria Uno Corp. v. Temple, 747 F.2d 1522 (4th Cir. 1984).

PJ - see Personal Jurisdiction.

Platino album - refers to a certification mark awarded by the RIAA for a phonorecord to recordings of which over 50% of the content is in the Spanish language and that sells at least 200,000 units.

Platinum album - refers to a certification mark awarded by the RIAA for a phonorecord that sells at least 1,000,000 units.

POA - see Power of Attorney.

Polaroid Factors - refer to the prongs of the test used in the second circuit when determining likelihood of confusion in a trademark dispute.

Ponzi Scheme - refers to a type of securities fraud in which a promoter diverts assets from a get rich quick investment plan. The name is attributed to the infamous securities fraudster Charles Ponzi who stole millions of dollars through a purported international postage stamp investment program that promised to double investors’ money within ninety days.

POSA - refers to Person of Ordinary Skill in the Art, see Person Having Ordinary Skill In The Art.

Power of Attorney - refers to an authorization, often in writing, to act on behalf of another for legal or business purposes. A Power of Attorney may be limited to specific matters, specific rights, and/or a specific duration.

PPA - see Plant Patent Act.

Preferred Embodiment - see Best Mode.

Product mark - refers to a trademark that is used on a specific commodity and only on that commodity. see generally T.M.E.P. ?1402.03(c).

Pseudonymous Work - refers to a work on the copies or phonorecords of which the author is identified under a fictitious name.

Public Display - refers to the performance or display of a work at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered or to transmit or otherwise communicate a performance or display of the work to a such a place, or to the public, by means of any device or process, whether the members of the public capable of receiving the performance or display receive it in the same place or in separate places and at the same time or at different times.

Public Performance - see Public Display.

Publication - refers to the distribution of copies or phonorecords of a work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending. The offering to distribute copies or phonorecords to a group of persons for purposes of further distribution, public performance, or public display, constitutes publication. A public performance or display of a work does not of itself constitute publication.

PVPA - see Plant Variety Protection Act.