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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
Employee Development Specialist Rosie Saberton
facilitates a mentoring session between Chief Judge
James Smith and Group Director Seema Rao during
a USPTO employee mentoring session.
nity to acknowledge supervisors and mentors who
model best practices in leadership or mentoring,
and exemplify the values set forth in the USPTO Leadership
Vision. The program was designed based on
requests from employees wanting an agency-wide
method to recognize their supervisors. In FY 2012, 50
supervisors were presented with Leadership in Action
Awards. Finally, an agency-wide mentoring program
component of the LDP program was designed to
provide access to mentoring opportunities to all
USPTO employees.
Advancements in USPTO’s Physical Workspaces
The USPTO continues to excel in creating a workplace
that is modern, attractive, safe, secure, and energy
efficient as evidenced by of the following achievements
in FY 2012:
●● The USPTO partnered with the General Services
Administration to program, design, and lead
construction of the agency’s first satellite office in
Detroit, Michigan. The Elijah J. McCoy Satellite
Office opened on July 13, 2012 and will house 100
newly-hired patent examiners, as well as a number
of Administrative Patent Judges. Modeled after the
interiors of the Alexandria, Virginia campus facility,
the space provides a Public Search Facility, several
team rooms for interviews, and infrastructure that
ties back into the campus. This is the first of three
additional satellite offices the USPTO will construct
in the upcoming years.
PERFORMANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT: FISCAL YEAR 2012
USPTO’s Elijah J. McCoy Satellite Office in Detroit
opened in July 2012.
●● The USPTO continued to closely monitor its energy
consumption and created an energy dashboard
documenting the campus’ electricity use each
month. The dashboard was displayed on our “Green
at USPTO” website and on the lobby-level kiosks,
complete with green tips showing employees how to
reduce energy consumption at both work and home.
●● The campus was the recipient of the Energy Star
2012 award.
The Energy Star 2012 award.
●● The USPTO won a 2012 Energy and Environmental
Stewardship Award from the DOC for its ability to
measure and increase recycling to a 54 percent
waste diversion rate, thereby exceeding the
President’s Executive Order 13514 of recycling at
least 50 percent by FY 2013. See Figure 28.