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Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 EXPOSED - Why Are They Hiding 6,000 Patents From YOU?
Patrick Bet- David discusses The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, Why Are They Hiding 6,000 Patents From YOU?
This could be the start of public awakening on withheld technology particularly in energy.
RIP Stan Meyer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act
The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 82--256, 66 Stat. 3, enacted February 1, 1952, codified at 35 U.S.C. ch. 17) is a body of United States federal law designed to prevent disclosure of new inventions and technologies that, in the opinion of selected federal agencies, present an alleged threat to the economic stability or national security of the United States.
The Invention Secret Act allows the United States government to classify ideas and patents under "Secrecy Orders", which indefinitely restrict public knowledge of them.[1] The law applies to all inventions created in the United States regardless of what the idea or invention is.[2] All patents filed within the United States are required to be reviewed, and thousands of ideas and inventions are manually reviewed every year.[2][3] Any Federal government agency with "classifying powers" may request any patent be restricted under the Invention Secrecy Act.[4]
Ideas restricted by the Invention Secrecy Act's Secrecy Orders can be prohibited from any public disclosure; sales to any party except the United States military industry or exports to other nations can be prohibited; and can even be sealed from the public as classified.[5][6][1] Any appeals are limited to the United States Federal agency that itself restricted the ideas.[5] The United States Patent and Trademark Office has investigated the possibility of restricting new technologies if those new ideas may be disruptive to existing industries.[7] The Invention Secrecy Act has been criticized for lack of oversight and impacts on future scientific research by inventors, industry, attorneys and academics.[1][5][7][8]
Reality is generally less exciting than imagination, which has been the case for all classified activities or material I have been exposed to. Don't hold your breath. There are no energy miracles.
A colleague of mine developed some techniques for repairing composite structural surfaces (stealth material) and those became the basis for classified patents. And appropriately so. Without doubt, much of the Act was prompted by the profusion of new technology resulting from the development and testing of nuclear weapons. There are some kinds of information which would be highly imprudent to leave uncontrolled.
I had one invention that the security guys wanted me to "vanish." Since I was an employee, I complied. But I reflected on the fact that any bright Iranian grad student could stumble across the same idea. Another invention application was requested to be rewritten to avoid discussion of a sensitive mission application. Mainly so the boobs would not catch on with only a single thought on the subject.
There is only so much that classification can accomplish, but there are legitimate reasons for controlling national defense information. The problem is how to parse the dividing line, and circumstances tend to favor erring on the side of secrecy rather than openness. The corruption is when classification is used not to legitimately control actions and information, but to illegitimately conceal actions and information.