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

积压了大量申请的专利商标局需要长达4年的时间才能审批完一项专利申请。

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Do you have the time to go through hundreds of backlogged emails, choosing which to save and which to delete?

你真的有时间去浏览那成千上万的老邮件，然后慢慢地选择是要保留还是删除？

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When Bob took a look at his new department's performance reporting systems, he realized that the measures were all negative: late projects, number of mistakes, backlogged orders, and so on.

鲍勃检查了自己新部门的行为报告系统，发现指标全都是负面的：未及时完成的项目，错误数量，积压的订单数量等等。

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PIA's spokesman Sultan Hassan tells VOA that the Hussains are among the up to 17,000 travelers backlogged on PIA flights, which frequently run through European airspace.

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consensus seems to be that the office is severely underfunded and dysfunctional, has too few examiners, has inferior outdated technology and is helplessly backlogged with over 800, 000 unprocessed patent applications.

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