The U.S. Government’s Secret Inventions
- Secrecy orders allow U.S. defense agencies to control patents, including those that are privately developed.
- The U.S. Patent Office has a nine-member committee that screens patents in order to protect “national security”.
- Review of the Searl Effect Generator Blog on Government Secrecy Orders on Patents Have Stifled More Than 5,000 Inventions
Secrecy orders allow U.S. defense agencies to control patents, including those that are privately developed.
If you look through the U.S. Patent Office’s online database, you’ll find some head-scratching proposals for inventions: for a plan to stack airplane passengers on top of one another, for the process of taking a picture of something on a white background, for chocolate-covered ice-cream bars.
But as of 2017, according to statistics reported by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and published by the Federation of American Scientists, there were 5,784 patents that you can’t see. They’re the U.S. government’s cache of inventions under “secrecy orders.” We don’t know what they’re for, but once-secret patents recently made public have included a laser-tracking system, a warhead-production method, an anti–radar-jamming apparatus, and a stronger net.
Invention secrecy in the U.S. dates back to at least the 1930s, but it really took off in the ’40s, when the development of nuclear weapons was shrouded in classification. It became official policy in 1952 with the Invention Secrecy Act, which allows USPTO to keep patents deemed “detrimental to the national security” on lockdown. Under the act, USPTO’s commissioner of patents became empowered to flag patent applications—even those developed by private citizens—for review by government defense agencies, which could request that certain inventions be kept secret. Patents covered by such “secrecy orders” may be restricted from export, made available only to defense agencies, or even classified. Patent holders can appeal secrecy orders, but the power to rescind those orders remains in the hands of the agencies that made the requests. While there may be a chance those agencies will reconsider, the statistics aren’t promising: According to figures from the Federation of American Scientists, from 2013 through 2017, an average of 25 old secrecy orders were rescinded each year—while 117 new secrecy orders were imposed annually. With so many inventions deemed secret, so few eventually publicized, and the entire process itself obfuscated in classifications, it’s no wonder that critics have questioned whether the current invention-secrecy regime is really working properly.
The contention with invention secrecy is not that it should be abolished, but that it needs to stop being so overused.
FAS has been dogging the patent-secrecy system for three decades now. Founded in 1945 as the Federation of Atomic Scientists by the engineers of the Manhattan Project, the organization was originally formed to promote nuclear disarmament. As time passed, it renamed itself the Federation of American Scientists and expanded its scope to address additional issues, like chemical weapons, arms sales, and government secrecy in general. In the ’80s, when the Reagan administration and the National Security Agency sought to limit discussion of cryptography using invention secrecy, FAS entered the fray, successfully fighting off government censorship and tracking the USPTO’s secrecy activity ever since.
At heart, the contention with invention secrecy is not that it should be abolished, but that it needs to stop being so overused. At best, government agencies err on the side of caution and impose secrecy orders on patents that present even the slightest threats to national security. At worst, bureaucrats mindlessly impose secrecy orders and then forget about them, because that’s simpler than carefully considering the implications of new technologies becoming public. Either way, potentially useful or even revolutionary information is kept from the public, and the only recourse is to ask the government to reconsider.
FAS acting President Steven Aftergood points to two particular examples that illustrate issues with the current invention-secrecy regime. The first is solar panels. An initially classified document from 1971 reveals that the Army, the Air Force, and NASA all considered “solar photovoltaic generators” possibly worth restricting. “While these might potentially have military applications for space systems, they could obviously also have significant nonmilitary applications,” says Aftergood.
The second example is much more banal but better indicative of how absurd the system can be. Defense agencies periodically rescind secrecy orders, therefore allowing previously restricted patents to be publicly issued. In 2000, USPTO finally issued a patent that was filed back in 1936. And what was the invention so threatening to national security that it couldn’t be made public for 64 years? A cryptograph used to manually code and decode messages—technology that was decades out-of-date by 2000. “It’s historically interesting, but hardly breathtaking,” says Aftergood.
Two inventors have recently pushed back against this system in a civil case. In 2014, husband and wife Budimir and Desanka Damnjanovic filed a suit against the Air Force, the Department of Defense, and their respective secretaries after the couple’s (now-issued) patent for an anti–heat-seeking-missile measure became subject to two secrecy orders. While the Damnjanovics successfully settled their case in 2015 for $63,000, Aftergood notes that “those sorts of protests are unusual.”
FAS is currently trying to get more information about the process behind invention secrecy—rather than the inventions themselves—but even these details are guarded. “We have attempted to obtain the current invention-secrecy-review criteria that would shed light on current invention topics of security interest or concern, but we have not yet succeeded,” says Aftergood. USPTO confirms this, stating that, on top of patents being withheld for national security, “the criteria is also held under national security.”
Aftergood believes that this buffering of government secrecy with additional government secrecy is more knee-jerk than nefarious. While he admits that sometimes secrecy is deliberately applied for political advantage, “More often, it is a bureaucratic reflex that is more or less unconscious.” It seems that, for government agencies with classified rubber stamps, every subject’s a secret.
The U.S. Patent Office has a nine-member committee that screens patents in order to protect “national security”.
An understandable reason for suppressing certain types of energy inventions is that the knowledge behind them is also capable of producing tremendously destructive advanced electromagnetic weapons such as the “death ray” apparently invented by Nikola Tesla. Hence many such new energy technologies, particularly those using this kind of knowledge of advanced electromagnetic principles, are considered “dual use” technologies that are among the 4,000 un-numbered patent applications confiscated in a vault at the US Patent and Trademark Office because of their military potential and the need to keep that knowledge from America’s enemies.
A hidden purpose of this committee is to also find and remove from public access energy-related patents which could threaten the fossil fuel and power monopolies.
Canada’s patent office doesn’t have a similar screening committee. It is recommended that energy patents possibly in danger of being classified should be first applied for in Canada. Once granted, up to one year is allowed to apply for the same patent in the U.S. Patent Office. Now the patent can not be classified because it is already out in the public domain, courtesy of Canada.
Text of Generic Patent Secrecy Order
SECRECY ORDER
(Title 35, United States Code (1952), sections 181-188)
NOTICE: To the applicant above named, his heirs, and any and all of his assignees, attorneys and agents, hereinafter 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 publish 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 security 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 principals shall not inform such person of the secrecy order, but instead shall promptly furnish to the Commissioner 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 a U.S. government agency to export such part. If the subject matter is included in any foreign patent application, or patent, this should be identified. The principals shall comply with any related instructions of the Commissioner.
This order should not be construed in any way to mean that the Government has adopted or contemplates adoption of the alleged invention disclosed in this application; nor is it any indication of the value of such invention.
(The harsh punishment for a violation of this secrecy order, should an inventor exploits or even simply discusses his or her invention which is classified by a patent secrecy order, is 20 years in federal prison. In effect the US Government brutally and suddenly orders unlucky energy inventors to keep absolutely quiet and not do any more work on their inventions – without compensation for their well-meaning efforts. Thus a shocked, intellectually shackled and frustrated inventor would end up losing everything he or she had invested in his or her invention. The public is also ruthlessly denied any benefits from the invention.)
US Congress: Energy Inventor Protection and Patent Declassification Act
The newly elected United States Congress should immediately write, introduce, and pass a bill titled, “Energy Inventor Protection and Energy Patent Declassification Act of 2007”. Included should be 24/7 protection of energy inventors and their property by armed guards, and declassification of 4000 energy patents unfairly held in secret by the U.S. Patent Office. (In spite of what one energy activist suggests is the appearance of appointing a fox to guard the henhouse.)
Remy Chevalier suggests that Congress needs to put back into question the entire review process of patent law, and its consequences on environmental health, by imposing strict fines to who ever is caught buying energy patents for the sole purpose of keeping its protocol out of commercial circulation.
In this fourth version of Gary Vesperman’s compilation of specific energy invention suppression cases, the body count rose to a disgusting high of at least 23 innocent people whose lives were brutally sacrificed just to ensure the market supremacy of giant energy companies. 26 energy inventors and associates are known to have been threatened with death, and 7 energy researchers and associates have been imprisoned or falsely charged.
The Congressional bill should also include a provision to hunt down and imprison for many years the government/corporate energy invention suppressors and their hired killers.
Congress in 2005 gave the oil companies $2.6 billion in tax breaks as a reward for $190 million in campaign contributions. (Source: League of Conservation Voters)
Wilhelm Reich: Orgone Energy Motor
In the mid 1930s Wilhelm Reich, MD, began noticing an energetic connection that is shared by all living beings and had the clarity of mind to not dismiss the observation as unimportant. Dr. Reich called this energy “orgone” and worked for decades demonstrating its laws and studying its various manifestations.
Dr. Reich in 1948 got a “synchro” type of electrical spinnner motor to run from both an orgone energy accumulator and an orgone-charged high-vacuum tube. James DeMeo and Nicholas Reiter have each written an article on the orgone energy motor construction and use, with eyewitness quotes and many construction details. DeMeo has also published a third article on the subject of electrostatic motors, which are powered by sources bearing some resemblance to what Reich used in conjunction with the orgone accumulator.
An assistant, either suspected to be secretly working for the US Government or was simply an incompetent and thief, had helped with its mathematics and construction. This assistant then took some of Reich’s money and the motor with him that winter on the pretense of working on further refinements. Instead he disappeared. None of his claims about his past including previous employment were verifiable.
The US Government then campaigned for many years to thoroughly ban and burn Reich’s books and any other printed literature that included the word “orgone”. US Government violations at the time included the warrant less invasions and searches of the homes of people peripherally associated with Reich. In one such case, a home was searched, and Reich’s books were confiscated from private bookshelves. School teachers and doctors who worked with Reich were fired from their jobs.
Reich died at the age of 60 after serving eight months of a two-year federal prison sentence. Reich had been falsely labeled a quack and a racketeer by the US Government and the corrupt American medical system.
(Sources: Emails from James DeMeo,
http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20030310.htm,http://www.orgonelab.org/cgi-bin/shop.pl/page=xpulse.htm, and
http://pw1.netcom.com/~rogermw/Reich/orgone_motors.html.)
Energy invention suppression all too often involves energy inventors being deprived of their constitutional rights. Years ago James DeMeo, Ph.D., wrote a scathing well-referenced article “Anti-Constitutional Activities and Abuse of Police Power by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other Federal Agencies” (see http://www.orgonelab.org/fda.htm). The flagrant abuses by the US Government he cites are clearly reflected by US Government-sanctioned energy invention suppression terror tactics. At its end, he lists the pertinent constitutional rights which for over two centuries hundreds of thousands of Americans have defended with their lives as sacred:
The Constitution of the United States Bill of Rights, 15 December 1791
Amendment I: Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…
Amendment IV: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…
Amendment V: No person shall be … deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law…
Bruce DePalma (Interview): A Peaceful Revolution Against Energy Oppression
A University of California at Santa Barbara 1983 interview by Daily Nexus Staff Writer Evette Justus quoted Bruce DePalma, local physicist and scientist:
“A peaceful revolution can occur providing we can free ourselves from the oppression which is dominating us and controlling our day-to-day existence. This oppression is the necessity to make payments to a system which gives us the energy to heat our homes, transport ourselves, brings our food and fertilizer to grow our food, and makes the plastic that goes into our clothes. When we can be released from that we will have a choice. And this can be the only revolution – a peaceful revolution, and free energy technology makes this peaceful revolution possible.”
(The above quote was submitted by David Crockett Williams.)
End Energy Invention Suppression Now!
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Review of the Searl Effect Generator Blog on Government Secrecy Orders on Patents Have Stifled More Than 5,000 Inventions
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