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Performance and Accountability Report Fiscal Year 2006 Management's Discussion and Analysis |
The Trademark Organization Whats AheadThe Trademark organization will continue to move aggressively in the next year to continue to build upon the successes of the USPTO’s 21st Century Strategic Plan and move forward with the revision of the next five-year Strategic Plan by working with its constituencies to ensure the goals and objectives are aligned with their needs. Trademark's intends to continue to assess the efficiency of its operations as it proceeds with the incremental redesign of operations, which rely on e-government as the primary means of doing business with applicants and registrants, and, as the means for processing work inside the examining operation. In the next year Trademark's plans to:
The Trademark organization has achieved considerable success in implementing its business process re-engineering plan to move from primarily doing business with paper to doing business in an electronic environment. Completion of an electronic file management system, in addition to the currently available electronic filing and information systems permits:
As paper records disappear from internal processes, the cost for handling applications and related materials, along with the reliance on increasing numbers of employees or contractors to handle increases in filings, will continue to be reduced. Data quality has improved as data is captured electronically to support examination and to publish documents and registrations. Electronic file management presents an opportunity for the USPTO to offer multiple options for filing that allow applicants to select the method of filing that best suits their business needs. |
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