My point is unless you have some unknown insight you have no idea what its like to be an employee for the USPTO. there are many examples of Goverments problems I went to the DMV lately and I can tell you its not concerned with employee man hours! Maybe USPTO is maybe they have pressures maybe they don't I just wonder how you get this info to make these statements. I agree with a lot of the things you write but this stuff about the inter thinking of employees and organization that you do not work for makes no since to me. and No I do not think the IRS is very efficiant and I do believe what you wrote there are work enviroments like the ones you write about that is also my point you do not know what the USPTO is like so your comments about the pressures on them, the man hour stuff and all that is based on what.