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During fiscal year 2011, there were 143 new secrecy orders imposed on patent applications under the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reported this week. This represents an increase of 66% over the year before, and it is the highest number of new secrecy orders in a single year since 1998. The Invention Secrecy Act authorizes the government to block the disclosure of a patent application if it contains information that might be “detrimental to the national security.” Remarkably, this secrecy authority extends even to privately-generated inventions that the government does not own or control. According to USPTO statistics obtained by the Federation of American Scientists under the Freedom of Information Act, a total of 5,241 patent secrecy orders were in effect at the end of FY 2011, including both new secrecy orders and those from previous years that had been renewed.

This is the highest annual total since 1995. An explanation for the increase in secrecy orders was not reported. Nor do the statistics themselves include anything like a “figure of merit” that would confirm their validity or their legitimacy...

Full article: Invention Secrecy on the Rise (Via KeelyNet.com)


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