Why should the USPTO be any different than any other governmental agency of this nation?
"Two sides of a coin"
If your side of the coin out manuvers the other.....you stand that much stronger.
One can only hope for real counterbalance in the process.
Thing is, looking back at congress and the senate.....the counterbalance has run amuck.
Not that I want to go there....it's just a for instance obseveration.... http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Myself, I don't know what to think about anything any more.
doni