U.S. has 5000 secret patents, UK has 15,000!

[Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> 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 Some secrecy orders are rescinded after a few decades, but some of the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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