Secrecy holds for inventions increase
donal brown
October 21, 2010
Secrecy News’ Steven Aftergood argues that the trend toward placing more and more inventions under secrecy orders is detrimental as a closed procedure without external review. He says increased secrecy hurts rather than enhances national security. -db Secrecy News Opinion October 21, 2010 By Steven Aftergood There were 5,135 inventions that were under secrecy orders at the end of Fiscal Year 2010, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office told Secrecy News last week. It’s a