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The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 (Pub. L. 82–256, 66 Stat. 3, enacted February 1, 1952, codified at 35 U.S.C. ch. 17) is a body of United States federal law designed to prevent disclosure of new inventions and technologies that, in the opinion of selected federal agencies, present an alleged threat to the economic stability or national security of the United States.
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed ...
§ 121 of the Patent Act of 1952 was the first time, when the US Congress addressed the problem of double patenting. Prior to 1952, even when a patent examiner required splitting a patent application into several divisionals, the resulting divisionals were used against each other in courts as grounds for double patenting invalidation. This was ...
Invention Secrecy Act; L. Leahy–Smith America Invents Act; P. Patent Act of 1790; Patent Act of 1836; Patent Act of 1922; Patent Act of 1952; Patent Reform Act of 2005;
(g)(1) during the course of an interference conducted under section 135 or section 291, another inventor involved therein establishes, to the extent permitted in section 104, that before such person's invention thereof the invention was made by such other inventor and not abandoned, suppressed, or concealed, or (2) before such person's ...
United States patent law; Legislation; American Inventors Protection Act; Bayh–Dole Act; Invention Secrecy Act; Hatch-Waxman Act; Leahy–Smith America Invents Act
The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 allows the suppression of patents (for a limited time) for inventions that threaten national security. Whether information related to nuclear weapons can constitutionally be "born secret" as provided for by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 has not been tested in the courts.
United States patent law; Legislation; American Inventors Protection Act; Bayh–Dole Act; Invention Secrecy Act; Hatch-Waxman Act; Leahy–Smith America Invents Act