The backlogged Patent and Trademark Office can take up to four years to approve a patent application.

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Writing on the Rock, Paper, Shotgun games news site Alec Meer said it was always likely that the game would be funded given the amount of "backlogged adoration" for Planescape.

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The overwhelming consensus seems to be that the office is severely underfunded and dysfunctional, has too few examiners, has inferior outdated technology and is helplessly backlogged with over 800, 000 unprocessed patent applications.

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President Obama has told Congress it is a priority to reduce the number of backlogged claims at the VA, where claims are coming in at a faster rate than they can be processed.

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The lab was backlogged with orders.

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The program is a backlogged mess.

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These days, there is as much of a chance for an offering to be shelved as there is for it to come to market as scheduled: Sixty-five deals are currently backlogged, while 74 have come to market in 2012, according to Dealogic.

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