"Is that not something you could solve with more employees? If the task does not lend to parallelization, let each team work 2k weeks on every application inste

"Is that not something you could solve with more employees? If the task does not lend to parallelization, let each team work 2k weeks on every application instead of the current k weeks and employ doubly the amount of teams." The USPTO does not have the budget to double their staff. They are also getting pushed as hard as possible to lower pendency periods, which are already 3+ years in a lot of cases. If they did double their staff, the union would just demand even more concession, because they would have more power, not less. If they doubled pendency, they'd get murdered by congress. So they can't really win.