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United State Patent and Trademark Office - Intellectual Property Protection Activities

The Office of Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement (OIPPE) strengthens intellectual property protections worldwide through education programs and by providing policy advice to the U.S. and foreign governments.

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PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The number of foreign officials trained and making positive changes in intellectual property policy has increased. OIPPE is training more foreign officials, especially from Brazil, Russia, India, and China, and the percentage of these officials making positive changes in intellectual property policy in their home countries exceed targets.
  • A lower percentage of countries on USTR's 301 list or awaiting WTO ascension have positively amended their intellectual property systems. This indicates that U.S. efforts to strengthen global intellectual property protections can be improved. Countries on the USTR 301 list or awaiting WTO ascension have intellectual property systems that can be improved.
  • OIPPE will begin to track new outcome measures related to their intellectual property protection activities, but results are not available yet. OIPPE has developed measures to track their program activities' performance. However, very few actual results are available, which makes evaluating program performance difficult.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Contracting with an independent organization to conduct an evaluation on the long-term outcomes and impact OIPPE assistance has on Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement.

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