On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:38 PM, David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com>wrote:
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>>  I know for a fact that the government can order a patent kept secret.
>> I once patented a spread spectrum transceiver which was placed in a secret
>> vault.  It used some new concepts which the air force wanted with held.
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> "At the end of fiscal year 2011, there were 5,241 secrecy orders in
> effect."
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> http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/invention/index.html
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Of all the sponsoring agencies, the Navy has the highest sequestered patent
count most years.

T

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