I don't like this practice at all. Patent examiners see applicants claiming things that they likely believe isn't allowable all the time. When done in bad faith

I don't like this practice at all. Patent examiners see applicants claiming things that they likely believe isn't allowable all the time. When done in bad faith it's called "inequitable conduct" [1]. Keep in mind that as an examiner, I couldn't reject them for that, so I just found prior art to reject them with. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inequitable_conduct https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inequitable_conduct