Government orders decade-high number of secrecy orders for new patents
October 22, 2009 by donal brown
Filed under 1st Amendment News, Access to Records, Federal FOIA, News & Opinion
The U.S. government has ordered 5,081 invention secrecy orders so far this year, according to stats released by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office under a Freedom of Information Act request by Secrecy News. -DB
Secrecy News
Federation of American Scientists
October 22, 2009
By Steven Aftergood
The total number of invention secrecy orders that the U.S. government imposed on [...]
