> ... examiners are rewarded only for issuing patents... This is incorrect. They are "rewarded" for any kind of action on a pending patent, whether it's an al

> ... examiners are rewarded only for issuing patents... This is incorrect. They are "rewarded" for any kind of action on a pending patent, whether it's an allowance or a rejection. Last I checked, a majority of them gets rejected at least once. In some art units (i.e. field of technology) the rejection rates are actually pretty high.