The premise of this article that patent attorneys wear down patent examiners through dragging on prosecution by continually responding to office action rejections is nonsense. In fact it's just the opposite. Patent examiners would love to see the same patent application over and over because they will already be familiar with the subject matter and will have a pretty good idea of the art in that field from having already examined the applications before. Plus the patent examiner is allotted extra time to examine the application each time an RCE or continuation is filed to extend prosecution. So seeing the same patent application over actually helps the examiner to more easily meet his production requirements.