Appendix B: Performance Goals and Measures that Have Been Discontinued or Changed

Protect intellectual property and improve the patent and trademark system

Performance Goal: Improve the quality of patent products and services and optimize patent processing time (USPTO)
Corresponding Measures	Patent first action pendency (months) Patent total pendency (months)
Change	Measured reworded as: Patent average first action pendency (months) Patent average total pendency (months)
Justification	Rewording reflects a more specific description, showing it as an efficiency measure.

Performance Goal: Improve the quality of trademark products and services and optimize trademark processing time (USPTO)
Corresponding Measure	Trademark average pendency excluding suspended and inter parties cases (months)
Change	New measure
Justification	New measure excludes certain types of trademark disposals that tend to increase trademark disposal times.

Performance Goal: Create a more flexible organization through transmitting patent and trademark operations to an e-government and advancing property development worldwide (USPTO)
Corresponding Measure	Technical assistance activities completed
Change	Measure split and then reworded to read as follows: IP technical activities completed (activities) IP technical activities completed (countries)
Justification	The split and rewording now reflects two aspects of USPTO’s work: the activities they do and the number of countries they assist. The measures are now more specific.