Misuse of "Stack"
Sat, 04/11/2009 - 17:33 — Jinghao
In a BusinessWeek article, various technology company CEOs contend that patent reform is necessary to preserve American innovation, and that due to the large backlog of applications, all the applications will take at least two years to process with the current staff. Because of that, the article claims that "700,000 [applications] are just sitting in a stack."
Wait a minute, are you serious? So the last person who submits his application gets his stuff reviewed first? I think I'm going to apply for a patent then!
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maybe the stack is
maybe the stack is preprocessed and creates a new stack to maintain order. or maybe they're required to look through them all, so the order doesn't matter. or maybe this is just an example of bad beauracracy.