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*Many patents are approved because examiners don’t have time or resources to search all the relevant references
**The current patent backlog, as of January 2016, is 561,585.[http://www.uspto.gov/dashboards/patents/main.dashxml]
**FOTF (First Office Action Pendency, a measure of time from patent application to patent action), is 16.3 months (as of January 2016).[http://www.uspto.gov/corda/dashboards/patents/main.dashxml?CTNAVID=1004]
***FOTF goal is 10 months by FY2019.[http://www.uspto.gov/corda/dashboards/patents/main.dashxml?CTNAVID=1004]
* “The past three decades of wanton patent-granting have created a disastrous environment for innovation. Today it’s practically impossible to build anything without violating a patent of some kind—and risking a multimillion-dollar lawsuit for your troubles.” [http://www.wired.com/2012/11/ff-steven-levy-the-patent-problem/ (Wired)]
*Technology industry has too many overly broad patents, leading to incredibly silly patent litigation cases
