2018-05-09 | The thousands of secret patents that the U.S. government refuses to make public.
'At worst, bureaucrats mindlessly impose secrecy orders and then forget about them, because that’s simpler than carefully considering the implications of new technologies becoming public. '
'Patents covered by such “secrecy orders” may be restricted from export, made available only to defense agencies, or even classified. '
'The contention with invention secrecy is not that it should be abolished, but that it needs to stop being so overused. '
'And what was the invention so threatening to national security that it couldn’t be made public for 64 years?'
'It became official policy in 1952 with the Invention Secrecy Act, which allows USPTO to keep patents deemed “detrimental to the national security” on lockdown. '
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'At worst, bureaucrats mindlessly impose secrecy orders and then forget about them, because that’s simpler than carefully considering the implications of new technologies becoming public. '
'Patents covered by such “secrecy orders” may be restricted from export, made available only to defense agencies, or even classified. '
'The contention with invention secrecy is not that it should be abolished, but that it needs to stop being so overused. '
'And what was the invention so threatening to national security that it couldn’t be made public for 64 years?'
'It became official policy in 1952 with the Invention Secrecy Act, which allows USPTO to keep patents deemed “detrimental to the national security” on lockdown. '
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