In fact, the situation seems worse today than ever before, both because of the growing complexity of the system and electronic filing.
So, part of what has to be done is to reduce the complexity of the system so that our definitions of patents can be clearer.
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They are concerned about the cost and the complexity of the system, and they should be concerned because that is still going to be a problem.
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This is handy for deterring forgers, but it raises the price and complexity of the system well above anything that exists, or is being contemplated, elsewhere in Europe.
They included "the complexity of the system, lack of knowledge of entitlement, a perception of being stigmatised by the receipt of benefit and physical or other difficulties in the processes of claiming".
And, although the stability of the financial system is not to be taken lightly, it would be odd to pick on buy-outs as the chief systemic risk, instead of looking at the complexity of the system as a whole.
Vittorio Giulini, chairman of Moda Industria, the Italian clothing and knitting industries' association, says that the technological complexity of the industrial system that connects the spinner to the catwalk, and the historical memory it embodies, are two of the four pillars holding up Italian fashion.
The contrived complexity of the SSDI system has spawned a cottage industry of doctors and specialized legal teams to navigate the byzantine multi-tiered documentation process.
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Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he had concerns about the complexity of the voting system when he was Scottish secretary.
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The second alarming point is that when the complexity of a system reaches its corresponding critical threshold (critical complexity) the system in question becomes very fragile and therefore vulnerable.
"We can continue to criticise individual members of staff for individual failings but this ignores the complexity of these issues and the way that our system of criminal justice affects the victims of sexual offences, " he said.
Just weeks after the magazine assailed Ford for how the complexity of the MyFord Touch system continued to confuse American car buyers, Consumer Reports alleged that the Ford Fusion Hybrid delivered only 39 mpg in its tests of the vehicle in highway and city driving, far short of the 47 mpg Ford claims for the model.
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Rankings have shown the complexity and fragmentation of the university system and research in France.
Comparable to what was done for the Euro, we have analyzed the evolution of the complexity of the US as a system in the period 1985-2010.
Yet the real disadvantage of complexity in the international system is that it often makes it impossible for decision-makers to comprehend the challenges they face and to deal with them effectively.
That means that taxpayers would be free to choose to file their taxes under the current system with all of its complexity, or the new reformed alternative system, where their taxes could be filed on a postcard, saving hundreds of billions in unnecessary costs each year.
He reflects, with evident exasperation, at the complexity of a tax system over which he used to have considerable influence, warning that the power of vested interests and of the status quo tend to bear down on wannabe reformers.
Regulators in England, as well as in the U.S., are concerned that with the increasing speed and complexity of hedge fund trading, the system will be unable to keep up.
Scott-Clayton recently co-authored a new paper on the costs of complexity in the college financial aid system.
The complexity of our current system demands better communications across agencies and a holistic approach to the challenges and needs facing our public lands.
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The complexity of this system is a bit daunting.
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Rather than simply doing away with the deductions that caused the problems and reforming the rates to maintain progressivity, Congress thought a much more convoluted solution was just what the doctor ordered, adding an additional layer of complexity that has plagued the tax system since its inception.
We will need to figure out how to keep the large and diverse set of participants engaged, how to share the risks and value of innovation, how to manage complexity of this system without laying out too many constraints, and how to manage flow of information and activity across the boundaries where the degree of trust is yet to be established.
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We might not want to have entirely the levels of complexity that have layered themselves over the UK system in the past 800 years, there being no fewer than 21 possible different types of knighthood.
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All of the complexity in our tax system, in turn, may actually facilitate unscrupulous behavior that preys upon taxpayers.
These include the fact that policing is "inextricably linked" with the criminal justice system, and the cost and complexity of separating out national structures and arrangements and the management of national threats.
Adding to the stress is the complexity of the grammar, especially the far-from-perfect spelling system hellish past tense riddled with irregularities.
But most carriers have not instituted automatic traffic offloads between their networks and Wi-Fi due to the complexity of building such a system.
Forbes investment editor, Janet Novack, has a smart essay about how the complexity of our current tax system makes any efforts at simplified filing problematic.
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