Seriously, why not just answer the questions on the form truthfully? I hope that was an oversight. Fibbing to the feds will get you in big trouble.

No, you have to ask an interesting question or propose an interesting scenario for people to want to comment.

For a hacker trying to find data suggesting the PTO and possibly some patent agents are not performing due diligence, where would you propose we start?

How many patent agents are there employed by PTO? Are they all full time?

This is a great effort to make a public repository of due diligence: http://patents.stackexchange.com/

I wonder to what degree examiners use this before granting a patent.

Let's publicize who the actual people reviewing the patents are, some personal accountability for the patents someone issues or approves could be powerful. I'd like to understand the KPI's of the PTO, are there patent agents issuing patents faster than possible? Robo signing? Are there incentives for an agent to issue more patents to keep organization wide throughput high? Where can I get Open Data related to the PTO?

Is your data stored in a graph database? Because that would be cool.

The family tree is semantic by nature, it shows the relationships between "entities". But you might have been joking?

Joking about what?

this would be great

Does the rate that up-votes come in change the rankings?

Handling bad and dirty values from business users is the bread and butter of the data cleansing industry. Cleaning user inputs is standard, if you expected to build a database application without having to properly clean user submitted records, you have sent yourself on a fools errand.

Find a new job. This is just a little taste of what is to come from your employer.