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U.S. has 5000 secret patents, UK has 15,000!
From: Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:25:38 -0400
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From: Ted Nelson <tandm () xanadu net> Date: June 15, 2010 5:12:02 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: Ted Nelson <tandm () xanadu net> Subject: Dave-- U.S. has 5000 secret patents, UK has 15,000! Reply-To: tandm () xanadu net
Some secrecy orders are rescinded after a few decades, but some of the roughly 5000 in force in the US date back to the 1920s. The new UK data records 2425 secrecy orders still in place. from the below http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18691-uk-keeps-three-times-as-many-patents-secret-as-the-us.html Cheers,Ted -- Theodor Holm Nelson PhD Founder of computer hypertext, 1960 Fifty years fighting for a better world of rich parallel documents, visibly connected. . Visiting Professor of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton, UK.
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