[Dinsdale]

Some of the people on Slashdot think that the patent examiner is a mole. He surely makes the system look 'stewpid'.

[bvw]

Unfortunately as Franz Kafka learned, it is impossible to craft ironic absurd satire that outdoes bureaucracy. The mole's attempts at destruction through evidencing the ridiculousness of the process are, I am afraid, likely to be subsumed, to be celebrated and then to be improved upon in kind as exemplars.