US Secrecy Order Suppressing New-Energy Inventions
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US Secrecy Statute hinders New-Energy Technology Transfers
(p.163-4 of Jeane Manning's book The Coming Energy Revolution, from Avery)
Harassing the Energy Innovators
Keeping Inventors Quiet
If you were an inventor trying to patent an important new-energy discovery,
you might receive a secrecy order along the lines of the one reproduced
here. According to information obtained under the Freedom of Information
Act by the Federation of American Scientists, the Pentagon placed 774 patent
applications under secrecy orders in 1991 -- up from 290 in 1979 -- and 506
of these orders were imposed on inventions by private companies. The
government has standing gag orders on several thousand inventions. The
following order issued in the 1980's was obtained by inventor Ken MacNeill
of Georgia and revealed in 1983.
SECRECY ORDER
(Title 35, United States code [1952], sections 181-188)
NOTICE: To the applicant above named, his heirs, and any and all his
assignees, attorneys and agents, herinafter designated principals.
You are hereby notified that your application as above identified has
been found to contain subject matter, the unauthorized disclosure of which
might be detrimental to the national security, and you are ordered in
nowise to publich or disclose the invention or any material information with
respect thereto, including hitherto unpublished details of the subject
matter
of said application, in any way to any person not cognizant of the invention
prior to the date of the order, including any employee of the principals,
but to keep the same secret except by written consent first obtained of the
Commissioner of Patents, under the penalties of 35 U.S.C. [1952] 182, 186
Any other application already filed or hereafter filed which contains any
significant part of the subject matter of the above identified application
falls within the scope of this order. If such other application does not
stand under a secrecy order, it and the common subject matter should be
brought to the attention of the Security Group, Licensing and Review, Patent
Office.
If, prior to the issuance of the secrecy order, any significant part of
the subject matter has been revealed to any person, the principals shall
promptly inform such person of the secrecy order and the penalties for
improper disclosure. However, if such part of the subject matter was
disclosed to any person in a foreign country or foreign national in the
U.S., the prinicpals shall not inform such person of the secrecy order, but
instead shall promptly furnish to the Commission of Patents the following
information to the extent not already furnished: Date of disclosure, name
and address of the disclosee, identification of such part; and any
authorization by any U.S. Government agency to export such part. If the
subject matter is included in any foreign patent application or patent this
should be indentified. The principals shall comply with any related
instructions of the Commissioneer.
This order shall not be construed in any way to mean that the Government has
adopted or contemplates adopton of the alledged invention disclosed in this
application; nor is it any indication of the value of such invention.
At the conference where he revealed the secrecy order MacNeill advised
inventors of new-energy devices to go public: "Get the information or the
device out there to enough people that they could not stop you"
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