Posted by John Collins (194.164.38.196) on March 11, 2003 at 12:04:09:
Further to some earlier posts, the following, which I received from another forum, should be of concern to whoever succeeds in replicating Bessler's wheel. Of course it may all be rubbish but......?
Saturday, March 08, 2003 10:45 PM
Subject: NEW INVENTION SECRECY ORDERS REPORTED
The United States Govt. invoked the invention Secrecy Act of 1951 to impose new secrecy order's on 139 patent application's during the fiscal year 2002, thereby blocking their publication. A total of 4,792 secrecy order's remained in effect at the end of the year, according to statistics compiled by the Patent and Trademark Office. Secrecy orders can be imposed on patent application's at the discretion of the government agencies whenever, in their judgment, disclosure of the invention
could be "detrimental to national security". The Invention Secrecy Act is one of the two laws that permit the government to prevent publication of privately generated information.[the other law is the Atomic Energy act] the constitutionality of such authority, which appears to be at odds with the first Amendment, has never been tested in court. Of the 139 new
secrecy order's issued last year,37 were imposed on private inventors or businesses who developed their inventions without Government funding. Such orders, which are referred to as John Doe orders, are the most potentially problematic from the constitutional point of view.
[ source; Secrecy News,
no 1 January 6, 2003; statistics at
http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/invention/stats.html