I admire your restraint. But of course the PTO is doing everything it can to force the APJ’s to pump out more decisions. If limiting dissent, and/or concurrences, will help with that, they’re not above doing it.

The PTO is also doing everything they can to make appeal more expensive, time consuming, and arduous. What else can explain the (still on hold) appeal rules?

Go back and read those. They are an eye opener.

In the FR notice on the appeal rules the PTO takes the same stance on the BPAI backlog that they do on the application backlog: we can’t hire our way out of it.

Of course they can’t. Why would anybody with a brain in their head go work there? It’s a slightly higher paying version of examining. The message from the PTO is the same: quality = affirm, affirm, affirm.

What practitioner would trade their private practice gig for a tread mill that they’d be forced to run on and cook up affirmances of the garbage rejections sent up from the examining corps?