To be fair to the USPTO employees, it is quite likely that they are behaving like their fellow government employees in other departments, but they are being mor

To be fair to the USPTO employees, it is quite likely that they are behaving like their fellow government employees in other departments, but they are being more closely examined because of the systemic flaws in the patent system. This would be a sort of selection bias; perhaps observer selection bias.[1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias#Observer_selection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias#Observer_selecti...