Do you know anybody working in a patent office? I know people in the European patent office and they are overwhelmed by numbers of application, they need very e

Do you know anybody working in a patent office? I know people in the European patent office and they are overwhelmed by numbers of application, they need very educated people to read through lot of (boring) documents and they do not get much incentive to be perfect (I mean salary is fixed). > needs to adjust the bar each year. You make it sound like this is moving a slider - I have strong doubts this is the case, someone need to write a description, explain it, make sure people understood how to interpret it. Doubt that changing rules each year would work well. > A patent examiner looks and has a discussion with the patent file You seem to agree that this is additional work. > Which I would like to reduce or eliminate. Making a policy must take into account side-effects. The intention can be good but the result of it can be bad > my process kicks in at the time a patent is filed One more process? There is a search already when you fill (or pre-fill don't remember the terminology) something. In my limited experience, results are - let's put it mildly - average. > if I'm first-to-file, but you can show that you invented before I filed, no patent is granted. What is the difference with today? But this is easier said than done. Patent language is complex, details are very minor and people will argue very every little thing. Fewer "active" patents and "less incentive to be a troll" would also be obtained by reducing drastically the granted period and that is clear and simple to implement.