In so many words, Fred has said a single claim is very labor intensive, time consuming, taking a week or more per claim getting the wording just right.

Lots of communication between Pat, any co-authors and the law firm.

Then of course there's the USPTO bottle neck phase getting it thru the system, dealing with red tape, non final rejections and such.

Not any easy task, but if ever challenged, we better have it right.

These are not exact quotes...