Patent Office Shows Record Backlog

acroyear writes "WTOP, 1500am, a news radio station in the DC area, is reporting that the Patent Office Is Seeing Record Backlog, with 2 years for a patent now, and potentially 4 years to wait by decade's end, and the PTO is considering a 15% increase in filing fees. Personally, I think if they had set a trend of actually rejecting patents that don't belong, they'd have sent enough of a message to keep application numbers to a reasonable level; right now, everybody files because just about everything can get one."

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Re:we gnaw.

[Sialagogue]

Yes indeed, this is off topic, although probably not a troll or a flamebait. My guess would be that you wanted to insert a little artistry into an otherwise dry conversation - a impressionist view in a community of realists. If that's the case, even though I have mod points I simply can't mark you down for your ambition.

That said, your post does leave me wishing that there was a "-1, Unskilled." Listen carefully to me -- you should stop writing. What you perceive as buoyant prose is really just thesaurus-driven typing with arbitrary eccentricities posing as a personal style. I read what you posted and I think of you as someone who read Joyce and Pynchon, and was so utterly disconnected, so thoroughly ignorant of their works' goals and scope that the only coherent thought you could have when you quit at page 80 was "Hey, I think I could do that."

Please understand, I'm not saying that you are worthless as a person, only that you are worthless as a writer. So please make a big move, explore new horizons and new experiences, new arenas where you could make a great contribution to the world. Just do us all a favor and never write about them.