Increasing staff and relieving the pressure of a 3 year backlog on patent applications could result in a more thorough (read: better) job being done and less "o

Increasing staff and relieving the pressure of a 3 year backlog on patent applications could result in a more thorough (read: better) job being done and less "obvious" patents approved. Or it could water down the standards even further as undertrained people come in and rubber stamp whatever's in front of them.