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14 MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS Summary of Strategic Goal Results The following table summarizes FY 2012 actual performance results against established goals and targets for each key performance measure. The table also includes actual performance results for the past four fiscal years. For the latest updated status for these and other performance measures, please visit our Dashboard at our Data Visualization Center at: www.uspto.gov/about/stratplan/dashboards.jsp. TABLE 2 Summary of Strategic Goal Results for FY 2008 - FY 2012 Strategic Goals Performance Measures GOAL 1: Optimize Patent Quality and Timeliness FY 2008 Actual FY 2009 Actual FY 2010 Actual FY 2011 Actual FY 2012 Target FY 2012 Actual Average First Action Pendency 25.6 25.8 25.7 28.0 22.6 21.9 Average Total Pendency 32.2 34.6 35.3 33.7 34.7 32.4 Patent Quality Composite Rate N/A N/A N/A 30.7 48-56 72.4 Patent Applications Filed Electronically 71.7% 82.4% 89.5% 93.1% 96.0% 97.1% 1 GOAL 2: Optimize Trademark Quality and Timeliness Average First Action Pendency 3.0 2.7 3.0 3.1 2.5 to 3.5 3.2 Average Total Pendency 11.8 11.2 10.5 10.5 12.0 10.2 First Action Compliance Rate 95.8% 96.4% 96.6% 96.5% 95.5% 96.2% Final Compliance Rate N/A 97.6% 96.8% 97.0% 97.0% 97.1% Exceptional Office Action N/A N/A N/A 23.6% 20.0% 26.1% Trademark Applications Processed Electronically N/A 62.0% 68.1% 73.0% 74.0% 77.0% GOAL 3: Provide Domestic and Global Leadership to Improve Intellectual Property Policy, Protection and Enforcement Worldwide Percentage of prioritized countries for which country teams have made progress on at least 75% of action steps in the country-specific action plans along the following dimensions: 1. institutional improvements of IP office administration for advancing IP rights, 2. institutional improvements of IP enforcement entities, 3. improvements in IP laws and regulations, and 4. establishment of government-to-government cooperative mechanisms. N/A NA 75% 100% 75% 75% The performance result of a given measure is either Met (100 percent or greater of target), Slightly Below (95 to 99 percent of the target), or Not Met (below 95 percent of target). N/A: Denotes new performance measures where data was not available. 1 This is preliminary data and is expected to be final by December 2012 and will be reported in the FY 2013 PAR. PERFORMANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT: FISCAL YEAR 2012
What is a patent? A patent is an intellectual property right granted by the Government of the United States of America to an inventor “to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States” for a limited time in exchange for public disclosure of the invention when the patent is granted. There are three types of patents. Utility patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof. Design patents may be granted to anyone who invents a new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture. Plant patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant. Patent number 2,091,077 for a “Lawn Mower,” issued to H.C. Limbach in 1937. PATENTS: Strategic goal 1
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