SE - see Textual Serials.

SESAC - see Society of European Stage Authors and Composers.

SESD - see Supplemental Examination Support Document.

SJ - see Summary Judgment or Specific Jurisdiction.

SLAPP - see Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.

Sleekcraft Factors - refer to the prongs of the test that the Ninth Circuit uses when examining likelihood of confusion in a trademark dispute. see AMF Inc. v. Sleekcraft Boats, 599 F.2d 341 (9th Cir. 1979).

SM - see Service Mark.

SME - see Subject Matter Expert.

SOCAN - refers to the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada.

Society of European Stage Authors and Composers - refers to a Performing Rights Society.

Sociological Jurisprudence - refers to the philosophy where the rules of law are evaluated basis the social interests that they serve.

Sound Recordings - refer to works that result from the fixation of a series of musical, spoken, or other sounds, but not including the sounds accompanying a motion picture or other audiovisual work, regardless of the nature of the material objects, such as disks, tapes, or other phonorecords, in which they are embodied.

SoundScan - see Nielsen SoundScan.

SPE - see Supervisory Primary Examiner.

Special Assumpsit - refers to an express promise or contract.

Stamp Duty - see Stamp Tax.

Stamp Tax - refers to taxes that are charged on transfers of shares or property.

Stip - see Stipulation.

STOP - see Start-Up Trademark Opposition Policy.

Suggestive term - refers to mark that when applied to the goods or services requires imagination, thought or perception to reach a conclusion as to the nature of those goods or services. A suggestive term differs from a Merely Descriptive term.

Supplementary Work - refers to a work prepared for publication as a secondary adjunct to a work by another author for the purpose of introducing, concluding, illustrating, explaining, revising, commenting upon, or assisting in the use of the other work, such as forewords, afterwords, pictorial illustrations, maps, charts, tables, editorial notes, musical arrangements, answer material for tests, bibliographies, appendixes, and indexes.