Annual Report 1998

• Cover Page
• Introduction
• Message from the Acting Commissioner
• Management Discussion and Analysis
  •  PTO space acquisition
  •  PTO appropriation
  •  Patent fees
  •  PTO financial status
  •  Y2K
  •  PTO people
• Patents
  •  Overview
  •  Goal 1: Reduce the PTO processing time to patent original inventions to 12 months in 2003.
  •  Goal 2: Establish industry sectors.
  •  Goal 3: Receive applications and publish patents electronically.
  •  Goal 4: Exceed our customers' quality expectations through the competencies and empowerment of our employees.
  •  Goal 5: Assess fees commensurate with resource use and customer efficiency.
• Trademarks
  •  Overview
  •  Plans for 1999
  •  Electronic trademark filing and processing
  •  Work-at-Home project
• Information dissemination organizations
  •  Overview
  •  1998 Highlights
  •  Plans for FY 1999
• Intellectual property policy
  •  Overview
  •  Domestic Activities
  •  International Activities
• PTO Management
• Message from the Acting Chief Financial Officer
• Financial Discussion and Analysis
  •  Significant Changes and Accomplishments
  •  Financial Condition
  •  Significant Actions and Results
  •  Limitations of Financial Statements
• Financial Statements
  •  Consolidated Balance Sheet
  •  Consolidating Statement of Net Cost
  •  Consolidating Statement of Changes in Net Position
  •  Consolidated Statement of Budgetary Resources
  •  Consolidated Statement of Financing
• Notes to Financial Statements
  •  NOTE 1. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
  •  NOTE 2. Fund Balance with Treasury
  •  NOTE 3. Property and Equipment
  •  NOTE 4. Deferred Revenues
  •  NOTE 5. Actuarial Liability
  •  NOTE 6. Leases
  •  NOTE 7. Imputed Financing
  •  NOTE 8. Program or Operating Expenses
  •  NOTE 9. Program or Operating Expenses by Category and Responsibility Segment
  •  NOTE 10. Commitments and Contingencies
• Inspector General's Report
• Innovators and Innovations
• Supplemental Information
  •  U.S. Patent and Trademark Organizational Chart
  •  1998 Fee Collections by Category, Cash Basis
  •  Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA)
  •  Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows (Indirect)
  •  Litigation
  •  FY 1998 PTO Workload Tables [ Adobe PDF files ]
• PTO at a glance
  
• Acknowledgements
  

 

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