ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (European Political Party)
BEUC - Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs (The European Consumers' Organisation) - http://www.beuc.org
Bitkom - Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien e.V.
BMJ - Bundesministerium der Justiz (The German Federal Ministry of Justice)
BSA - Business Software Alliance - http://www.bsa.org
BVMW - Bundesverband mittelständische Wirtschaft (German SMEs alliance, against Software Patents)
CCIA - Computer & Communications Industry Association. An EEUU association for open standards and a reform of the patent system but not against software patentes, too many of its members are invested in software patents.
CE - Consumer Electronics
CEAPME - Confédération Européene des Associations de Petites et Moyenne Entreprises (cea-pme.org)
CII - Computer Implemented Inventions. A term coined for the industry pro software patents to get a directive in Europe that would have allowed software patents.
CompTIA - Computing Technology Industry Association (Microsoft lobby group)
COREPER - Committee of Permanent Representatives (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COREPER)
CP - Community Patent
DPMA - Deutsche Patent- und Markenamt (German Patent Office)
ECIS - European Committee for Interoperable Systems (seems on the FFII side, but some of their statements are not clear anough)
ECJ - European Court of Justice (Tribunal de Luxemburgo en Español)
ECMA - European Computer Manufacturers Association (standards organization)
EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://eff.org/)
EICTA - European Information, Communications and Consumer Electronics Industry Technology Association
EIF - European Interoperability Framework
EOI - Expression of Interest
EPA - European Patent Agreement / Europäische Patentamt
EPC - European Patent Convention (also EPA, European Patent Agreement)
EPLA - European Patent Litigation Agreement. German: Europäisches Streitregelungsabkommen
EPO - Europäischen Patentorganisation / European Patent Office
EPÜ - Europäisches Patent Übereinkommen
EPÜ2000 - Europäisches Patent Übereinkommen vom Jahr 2000
ESA - The European Software Association. Microsoft is a member
FFII - Förderverein für eine Freie Informationelle Infrastruktur
FLOSS - Free/Libre/Open-Source Software
FOSS - Free and Open-Source Software
FSF - Free Software Foundation
ICT - Information and Communications Technology
IDABC - Interoperable Delivery of European eGovernment Services to public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens.
IPR - Intellectual Property Rights
IPRED2 - Intellectual Property Enforcement Directive 2
ITRE - Committee on Industry, Research and Energy of the European Parliament
JURI - Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parlament
KMU - Kleine und Mittelständische Unternehmen (SME in English)
MEP - Member of the European Parlament (German: Abgeordnete(r), Spanish: diputado)
OEMP - Oficina Española de Marcas y Patentes (Spanish Office for trademarks and patents)
OMC - Organisation mondiale du commerce (French for World Trade Organization)
OSA - Open Solutions Alliance
OSADL - Open Source Automation Development Lab (Against Software Patents)
PAS - Publicly Available Specification
PYME - Pequeña y mediana empresa (Spanish for SME)
RAND - Reasonable and Non Discriminatory Licensing (bad standards because they are not free)
SFLC - Software Freedom Law Center. Against Software Patents. See http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/20061215a.html
SME - Small and medium enterprise
SUEPO - Staff Union of the EPO (http:www.suepo.org)
TIC - Tecnología de la Información y la Compunicación (ICT in English)
TRIPS - Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
UEAPME - Union Européenne de l'Artisanat et de la Petite et Moyenne Entreprise
UEPME - União dos empresários das micro, pequenas e médias empresas
USPTO - United States Patent Office
WTO - World Trade Organization
WIPO - World Intellectual Property Organization (part of WTO)
