[WildUtah]

Patent examiner salaries are 52-79k? In Washington, D.C., the most highly paid metro area in the USA?

No wonder they can't manage to hire engineers who know any of the many technologies that have been around for decades and still get repeatedly patented every week. That's as bad as the continuing prohibition on admitting computer engineers and software engineers to the patent bar while software becomes an ever larger fraction of the case load.

[dogofthunder]

Not to be confrontational, but where do you see that there is a "prohibition on admitting computer engineers and software engineers" to the patent bar? I have a CS degree, and work with plenty of others with software experience or computer engineering/software degrees, all of whom are admitted to the patent bar.

[WildUtah]

Last I checked there was a list of eligible engineering degrees and software engineering was not on the list.