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Below are those Strategic Goal 1 measures for which enough data is available to establish performance trends. The Patent Quality Composite Rate Measure is new and has insufficient data to show a trend this year.
Strategic Goal 1: Optimize Patent Quality and Timeliness The USPTO is pleased to report that our AIA implementation efforts are proceeding on a timely basis. America’s innovators are already seeing the benefits of this legislation. Seven provisions of the AIA have been implemented – all within the time frames prescribed by the Act – and proposed rules have been published for nine more provisions. The USPTO remains on track to timely implement all provisions of the AIA. The USPTO is also proud of our ongoing, concurrent efforts to improve the patent examination process and more quickly move important innovations to the marketplace. For example, our backlog of patent applications has been reduced to 608,283, the lowest level in several years despite significant increases in filings last year and this year. Our total pendency was reduced to 32.4 months and our first action pendency was reduced to 21.9 months, much lower than the previous year. FIGURE 7 Clearing the Oldest Patent Applications – FY 2012 COPA “Tail” Cases in the Backlog MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS In order to achieve its goal to reduce pendency, the USPTO launched a major program called Clearing Our Oldest Patent Applications 2.0 (COPA 2.0). COPA 2.0 is a continuation of the original COPA effort to eliminate the “tail” of backlog applications. For COPA 2.0, the “tail” is applications that were 13 months and older as of October 1, 2011, and had not received a first office action. The goal for FY 2012 was to complete a first office action on 260,000 applications. As of the end of the year, we addressed more than 271,635 COPA 2.0 applications and achieved over 100 percent of the goal. Clearing the oldest patent applications is important to the USPTO’s long-term success in reducing pendency and the excess inventory of unexamined patent applications. The improvements and increased efficiencies are shown in our COPA performance metrics in Figure 7, below. www.uspto.gov 17
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