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Strategic Goal 3: Provide Domestic and Global Leadership
to Improve Intellectual Property Policy, Protection and
Enforcement Worldwide
The USPTO develops and advances domestic
and international U.S. IP policy objectives that
include the establishment of strong and
balanced IP systems to serve the needs of all stakeholders.
The USPTO develops IP policy through information
gathering and analysis and stakeholder
consultations. Stakeholders include domestic and
foreign IP rights holders and users, consumers, U.S.
government agencies, foreign governments, and
the public at large. The USPTO furthers IP policy
goals through training foreign officials, providing
domestic and international educational outreach,
launching strategic cooperation projects between
national IP offices, deploying IP Attachés to critical
regions of the world, and advising on the IP aspects
of U.S. trade efforts, including participation in the
current Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations.
OBJECTIVE 1: Provide domestic leadership
on IP policy issues
Provide Evidence on the Economic Impacts
of IP Protection
On April 11, 2012, the Secretary of Commerce
released a report titled “Intellectual Property in the
U.S. Economy: Industries in Focus” co-authored by
the USPTO and the Economics and Statistics Administration.
The report details how U.S. companies in
our most competitive industries are using patents
and copyright to protect their innovations, and
trademarks to distinguish their goods and services
from those of competitors. The report identifies the
75 American industries most intensively using IP
protections, and uses statistical data from across the
U.S. government to examine both the important
trends and economic characteristics of these highly
IP-intensive industries. There are several important
findings contained in the report, including:
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
Tina M. Tchen, Executive Director of the White
House Council on Women and Girls, Director of the
White House Office of Public Engagement speaks
at the Woman Entrepreneurship event at USPTO
headquarters on March 1, 2012.
FIGURE 22 Average Weekly Wages of Private Wage
and Salary Workers in IP-Intensive Industries, 2010
Graph demonstrating that wages in the IP-intensive
industries are significantly higher than in other sectors
of the economy (Source: Intellectual Property in the
U.S. Economy: Industries in Focus Report, April 2011).
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