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- Newsgroups: comp.patents
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!basser.cs.su.oz.au!news
- From: pcassidy@world.std.com (Peter F Cassidy)
- Subject: Patent Secrecy Orders
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:18:43 GMT
- Approved: patents@cs.su.oz.au
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.225823.27208@cs.su.oz.au>
- Summary: [REQUEST] Looking for stories of patent applications denied becuase
- Keywords: patent secrecy, Cold War, patents, PTO
- Sender: news@cs.su.oz.au (News)
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- - Friends,
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- - I'm a writer on assignment with Technology Review working on
- a piece about Patent Secrecy Orders, a Cold War invention that allows
- the DOD to block grants of patents to inventors whose inventions are
- deemed inimicable to the national security for military rivals to know
- about or aquire.
- - I've got tons of figures on it from the PTO yet the one company
- that I've heard about that has recently fought a patent secrecy
- order - and won - doesn't want to appear in print.
- - Does anyone know an inventor - individual or corporate - who has
- had one of these things slapped on them? I'd appreciate any response.
- I'm stumped because all of this is . . . secret and unpublished so
- finding a victim of secrecy order will have to come from
- word of mouth, or word of net.
-
- - Thanks.
- - Peter Cassidy
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