by michael meiring » Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:28 pm
What about the invention secrecy Act 1951?<br><br><br>-----------------------------------------------------<br><br>FIFTY YEARS OF THE INVENTION SECRECY ACT<br><br>Under the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, the government is authorized to<br>impose a "secrecy order" on a patent application whenever it finds that<br>disclosure of the patent would be "detrimental to the national<br>security." In an extraordinary and possibly unconstitutional limitation<br>on First Amendment freedom, the inventor is prohibited by law from<br>disclosing his invention.<br><br>At the end of last year (FY01), there were 4,736 such secrecy orders in<br>effect, according to statistics compiled by the Patent and Trademark<br>Office that were released under the Freedom of Information Act this<br>week.<br><br>Most of these were renewals of secrecy orders that originated in past<br>years, but there were 83 new orders during 2001. Of these, more than<br>half (44) were imposed on private inventors or businesses who were not<br>government contractors. Because the government has no property interest<br>in such inventions, these so-called "John Doe" secrecy orders raise the<br>most substantial concerns about constitutionality.<br><br>------------------------------------------------------<br><br>many such inventors state that their new inventions which incidentaly create ulimited clean energy and would cost nothing to use, and where doing it to advance humanity, ie no more wars for oil, no pollution, advancement of poor nations etc, etc, have seen their inventions whisked off by government hoodlums. National security my ass. <br><br>This must act as an alarm bell to new inventors to stuff the patents and design them in secrecy and ship them all over the world.<br><br>I wonder who stands to lose most by oil having no value with new technologies about, at no cost to anyone, or at very little cost. Who would win? the enviroment, humanity etc, perhaps thats why such a law was created?<br> <p></p><i></i>