get your patent through, you're inevitably going to get sued, because someone else claims that they have inventsed that invention were. >> i understand that it's expensive to run any government office, but this has a direct relationship to prosperity. there must be a lot of junk patents out there, but some actually come to fruition, make people rich, employ people and united states. >> that's right. and that's the big problem, that -- you know, it's not just the funny patents that you see, you know, with people, this is a real patent someone invented, how to get your cat to follow a laser pointer. i mean, there are a lot of things like that that are causing the patents to have a longer backlog. but the microsofts of the world and intels and big tech companies, these are the ones that are really fueling innovation, the clean technology, the clean energy companies. this is the technology and these are the jobs of the future, and