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1. Ref'orenoeae Letter dated 18 September 1945. Files SPSIF-7. f'rom. Sipl 

Security Bmnoh, A:rmy Communioati-oDJI Servics to Direotor, Legal Division., Subjects 

Patent Office Seorecy Orders. (!h11 was a reply to Reterenoo 1 ~ identified in · 

C<m1D91lt lloe 1.) 

2o Reference 1 c, identified in COBBnent Jfo. 1, inoluded as an inolosure. a 

copy of a letter datedl2 September 1945 trom the Legal Di.vision of this Office to 

the Pateat Office, War Divtaicm.. 'l'his letter gave a definition of cryptology, emphaahd. j;he iaportanoe to the Signal Corpe of this field (which was then a Sigml 

COrpa responsibility) and of haVing an opportμnity to review patent applications in 

thh field.. This -.s reemphasized in our lotter of 6 October 1945 to the Pe.tent 

Office War Division. (A.otually dx copies ot thill letter were sent so that they 

might be d:l.stributaid to the- seTeral divi.sions of the Patent Office handling cases 

in thia field.) Inclosure 1 111 a copy of this letter. On 16 October 1945• the 

Army and. Havy Patent Ad'rlsoey Boa.rd (referred to. belOW' as ANPAB) sent a copy of this 

aame· letter to the Cmmnleeianer of Patents~ 

3. 'a• On 2 flay 1946. this' Ottice eemt to the Patents Division. Office of the 

Judge Advocate General (ret"erred to below as JAG). a l1fJW list of the categories of 

subject ma.ttar whiob the Signal ·corps want!Jd to have brought to its attention by the 

Patent Oftice. (Sea Inoloaure 2.) It will be noted that Item 1 on this Hat i-s 

identiaal with Its. l on the list inoluded in Inolo11ure 1 and reads "Secret signalling 

and oryptograpM:o devices &.n:d syet8ll811 • • 

be d\G sent copies of Inolosure 2 to the Conmissioner of Patents with a 

letter dated 6 Ua.y 1946. (See Inolosure 511) 

•·· Upon reoei ving, Cotr111.Sbt Jlo. 1 of the .present· co:t'respondanoe, this Office investigated the problem thus preB111nted. 'The oonclu&i!Jn was reached that of the very 

few cases brought to the attention of the .Signal Corps by the Patent Off'ice. for ra-

•iew as to cl&ssitioation, dtaring the period sine• 50 lfovembor 1945 (the date of tho 

Patent Oftice•s General ResoiDding Ord.or, roscinding all secrecy orders previouoiy·1n 

effeot. except thoae apeo11'1oally u:ce~ed ·at the request of ~e Armed Forces;_. a.11 

were apparently closely related in aubjeot-BILtter to oasee which were then or at SQDle 

time in the past under iecreoy 1n the Patent Oft'ioa. · (Of theae vory f1nr oa"es. even 

fowar pert.ained to the aotirttiea ot -~o\U" Aee:.::.cy.) /.a the Bi ttia.tion is recalled. the 

relat~onahip between theaa caaem was iiot merel7 one of subject-matter. but one involtjng .Plltent ·omee praotioe, for ·u:amp1e. a ~rent aase and n divts~mtt!Ll oa·se, or 

a parent case and a. aontinua~ton or_ a contintiaticm-iB-part. 

s. a. Recently. and after receiving Comment Ko. 1. t)Uo Office had occasion 

to. boZTow a tile trcn JAG to try to find some correapondenoe pertaining to another 

security problflll afteoting ~tent .e.ppl1oation•• While go:lllg through this file. it 

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SIGLG-SLG Subjects Patent Of'fi~e Secrecy Onie.re C-OMllD? JJO. 2 (cont'd) 

ing approval ot a nn proaedure with respeo1" to security matters and including the 

atateme.nt "Applications not under secrecy order 1111.1 be ordered for ArrrJY awl Ha.vy 

Patent Advisory Board only if there i• a power to inapeot1 th1• is not an exudnatlcm 

under authority of. Public 100 (an exception k Rula 1~). but a mere convenience to the 

advisory agency durtng the time the lfar Di 'ri.sion is t\motioning." The then CODliHioDer 

ot fnteilts, Wr. Casper w. 0ol!l8,,approwd this new procedure. Since this wne the tirat 

indication that present poreonllel of this O.ffioe had seen t.o ~· effect t.b.nt tl'..e 

Patent Office was .following a new md d~lihe.!"ate prsotioe of not bringing cases to th.a 

attention ot the Armed Foreei;J tor ae0t1rity review U.oept in certain 11.iDited si'tuat1ona, 

this point was more fully investiga_ted. · 

be It was then .f.'olD'.ld that the "Supplan.ant to the liistor,y of the Arrq 

Section of the Army an~ Navy Pktent Advisory Board covering the Period l ~pril: 1945 

-to 31 December 1946" contained. on page 10. the ·followi.ng statement 1 

0 '.i'ho Board wae turniahcd_ for its information. with a . 

copy of a letter to the Commissioner of Patent• fran the Patent 

Off'ioe War Divb9i<m d.atad 28 loTember .1945. and bear~ notat:S.on 

that it was approved by the Commissioner. setting up the pro~ 

cedure to ba followed on eecuri ty matters after 30 November 1945 

(Appendix MM). Dy the practice set up in this letter the su~asion of aew applications to advisory ngtJ1101es was 11m1ted to· 

those renewed flrat by the Commi81ltoner. or those 1n which a 

power to inspect was in the file. Case.s in secrecy would. be 

referred to the Army and Na,ry Patent Advisory Board to ocmeid•r 

rescission upon request, 01" whsn forwarded by the oxudners tor 

opinion. Dur.illg December a tew new seorecy ordera were issued 

upon the reOOllllllendation of the Boe.rd by rea.son ot in.formation 

previously known to the BOllrd members but no new e.pplicatiom 

were subnitted f'o?" exnmina'tion by the Patent Office. The main 

c.otivities a,t. the Pe.tent Office War Divisicm were direot.ed 

towo.rd completing records a?lc;i coordinating predous ~rk. By 

31 December 1946 the actiyities and personnel 0£ the War PiTiaion wore much reduc~d." 

. o. A thorough. search of the tiles of the $ign&1 Corps, £G. and ANPAB on 

this subject has not produced any evidence that •1ther ABmB or JAG ever notltied: 

the Signal Corps that the .Patent Office was tollawing tho "n.81J and deliberate priotioe" 

referred to in' Paragraph 6 .! above. 

de If Inclos'Ure 3 is etudied i~ the light of :what is now knOWr\., ~t will 

be seen that it is not clear whether at the conf'erenoe referred to in the fir at para• 

graph .of. this Inolosure, it waa d~oid•d to obango 1mitt "nn and deliberate praotioe»" 

by having the Patent Office bring to the attention. of the Ai'ae~ J,i"orces., e.11 ca.sea · 

oom.iJJ.g within the oatagories listed as having military importanoa, er meroly 1*011e 

cases of this type whioh wero related to "other applioatio11a which had been plaoed in 

secrecy ••••. in accord.anoo •1th the "provtaiona r4 tb& act of October a. 1917. aa 

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amitlllied (36 u.s.c. ·42):. a (?hU qaotation 11 taken h'om. the ileco~d para_gr11ph of 

Inclo•ure. 3. ) 

a. a. Whan this Office •• abo~ to d1scuac this nPtter with AG. it was 

iearned. t.hat f.lr. i'. E. OoegrCTR1. Alternate Kamber .for tile Ordl'Janoo. Department on 

Al!IB\B. had arranged a I!l9eting with Colonel G .• w •. Garde•,, Chief·, JAG Patents DiTido.n., 

and Major. B. E. Galleher. Jr •. ~ o£ the latter Di'ri.sian., to discuss t~ ~~e prcble as 

that pz-es91'lted by your ~&nay 1n Com:nezrt Noe·· 1. Ur. Glasamfin of this Ot'tice, vl.aited 

Mr. COsgrove and dieoovored that Ordnance ha.Cl indepl'llldeni:;.y raiaad the CJa!De problem 

and ha4 .aho iridapezidently reaohed the eeme oonclusiou as the Si,1719.l &:orps oonoarning 

a aomowbat related mattere · 

. be The latter has to do with :the t'llct that .it iB sometimeo nooeuo.ry to 

place an. application uudar saoracy merely beoauso it refers to a ols.sei..N.ed- military 

ueage of the invEtntion., even though the description of the· inveution i'i:;eel.f h unolassWed and tho _r&ference to the militar.1 usage is not essentia:l to the CODl.pleteneas ot the disclosure. Uudor present Patent Offioo practice. oancel~ation or the 

reference to the military us•~ would merely mean ~nt red lines would be drawn 

through this reference. l'he ini'onnatioa contained in the rafi;rence could still be 

eeai.ly read· and would bo available to the general public in tho patented file~ i:t' 

a patent issued covering this patent application. It was .our idea that tha a'r;ay 

should sponsor a uew statute w.bioh would provide ibr the actual exci·flion of the 

olas~fi~d portions of P.. pa·t;et application where auch portions were not essential 

to the oampl.etene.as of the disclosure. This exciliion would be accompanied by appropriate sat'egua.rd.s, such a:1 oonsen,t ot tbe Com:Bissioner of Pa·tenta end of the owner of 

the application.. e.nd would be done only at tbe request of t}if) Armed Forces. The 

ata.tute should also pro'Yide tor cxnn.plet$ destruction (again with appropriate ea.fegunrda) of a patent appl1oatton which oonta:lna ..-ery highly classified in.formation so 

much distribut;ed throughout the application that 1~ is most tmlike~y ~hat the e.pplioation 1lf0u1d n-er ·be permitted to ieeue as a patent. '!'his latter provi:tion would 

pro~bly be of epeci&l interest to your Age.nay. · 

. 7. Ur. Gla11lll!JIU:t.of this O:ffioe participated in the meeting mentioned in. Par. 

6 !. aboTO and 1111hioh took pl&oe on 27 April 1948. At this meatini;~ ,a.f:ter ths two 

probl ens already referred to bad been disouaeed. Mr. Glassman brotight up a thi1'.d 

problem -·the queation of the &dequaoy of the eeourity protection givun by the 

Patent Office to ole.Hified patent applioationa •. 

a. The ·Oonoluaione reaohed a·t; tb.e meeting ware as follow• 1 

a. Colonel Gardee atated that ANPAB 1P10uld write to aach bran oh o~ ·the 

Anq-, ·Ba~ and Ail" J.i'orca represented on tbat Board. and req®Gt the vitJ\'fa ot such 

branch ae to the reinstatement by the ,Patent Office of the prooedilre of sv.bnl"itting 

to the A.med lforoes tor seour.1.ty review applications coming within oernain cE-tagoz-1e11, 

and··would. also roque.at a llet of the categorios in the event that the branch thought 

that the precedure should be reinstated. II'. as ia almost oortain to bes the c.a6e. 

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.ANPA.B decided that the pro.oediu'o ehou-ld ·be r:einatated. Colon•l Gardea Y.'Ould arre.~e 

for a meetil:.g 1'li th the Commissioner of. Patents to get hJ.~ vi:fffl on this matter. 

(Incidentally. the Pi:ea011t OoSissioner of Pa.te.11t. 1a no"t Mr. Oona but H?-. Lawnnce 

c • .King~land.) 

b. During this same JB.eeting. Colonel Glilrdea will :tt_,~uss l':ith tho 

C.ounilHioner ot -?ater:rts. J>l"Opoaod. statute whi~ is mentioned in Par. 6 .! ~:~"!'.,.~. , the/ . . . c. Colouel Oardes will discuss oit.ller "1th the i!ommi:t11sicmer of' Pate:ite · 

or A.salat,ant Coumisoior.i.ar Ure Thomas F •. i.1urphy. the question of the adequacy ot the 

s~cu.rity protection given by the Pat.ant OCfioe to claeaitied pat~ e.pplioations and• 

if posdble• will make a survey of the ty~e 0£ proteotion .afforded. in eame of tho 

Pa.tent Offic.Eit di:Visi-ons having a cODsiderable number 0£ uuoh applieat'ions. 

9. It is reqμe"Jted that tbio O:fi'ice be actviGed whether your A.goncy is in• 

tereBted in chan~ing th~. doscription of the oategory of applications will.oh you 

would like to review. fral!l. tta .prasent version of ,.Secret signaling end or.{P'to• 

graphio devices and systems"• 

10. You lvill b.e kept advisee of any .further d"velopments iu the matter• 

oovarad by this communicntiotr. 

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Attentions War Division 

Dear Sirr 

For the guidance of the Patent Of'tioe personnel in subnitting pa ~nt 

appliontions now uncisr .-eorooy order to &ignal Corps per•onnel for review 

\there tollO\TIS n desoription of tho an,tegorie11 by subject --.tter of oases. 

wbioh Signal Corps would ~- interested in reviewing for recommendations aa 

to whether or not the seoreoy orders should be dontiilued beyond 30 November 

1946. . 

i.· s·aoret sigi:ml~ng and oryptographio dovioes and- .systems .• 

2. Radio remote control devioas or systems for guidanoe of 

land. sea, or air vehioloa. 

3. Object deteotiol;l cand locating toohniquaa and derloee 

involving pJ1.noiples other thnn ordinary pulse and 

f.requenoy mo<lllation techniques o·urrently snploye_ci. 

An example of the type desired is inf-ra•red and heat 

deteation IJ!'S~lh 

4. Electronic deuoea or syatemB which ma,y be mnpioyed 

in a inili taey role as means of• oountermsa1n.iro•• This 

includes tleoaptive d~viceis. intentional signal jam-

·ming generators and systems or techniques for obtaining 

desired signal 1ihrough 1ntentiona.i jmliming' at aignals. 

lt does not inolude.or.dinary noise generators tor 

laboratory tast purpo~e or techni~u9s for :)lJ'taining 

. desired signal through static or· interteranoo dtie to 

weather oondi ti ans, if these may })e aegregatede 

s. Applicati Olle oontaining a description ot military. 

taotioal usos of the invention other tho.n those 

oommonly kno1111 to ~he publ1o, 

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There exists an additional olase 9 nmiiely. proximity 

fuses. However, 1 t is understood th.at this olase 

'will be covered by a ai:iilar listi·ng ot~ categories 

ot oaees ot interest to Anny Ordm.nce. 

Not all oaSOl(I fnl ling l'li thin the categories· listed nbove wi 11 be 

reoanmended .for seoreQ)i'·~ It is expected that very few sooreoy ordera 

will be reoonunended a~oe anly those oases whi,oh are prlmiiri ly military 

. ~will be raoommended f.or secrecy. The liat presented merely represents 

those oleseee of oases vthich it ie fc31t should be examined by Signal 

Corps eXp~rts torfthl9 purpose of determining whioh P.pplioationa, if ney. 

should be plnoed under a seoreoy order; 

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Paten1;a and- Inventions. Counuel 

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Categories of C.lassi fia.d Signal Corps Equipment 

Jud go Advooa te General,, Wnahington,, D. c. 

Attention: Colonel VnndenFerker,, Chief .. Pa ton ta Division 

The follOwing is ~he present llst o.f oatogorios of subjects mat·ter 

whioh S~gml Corps would be interested in reviewing w1 th rei'Elrenoo to 

the possible plaoing of st!oreoy orders on applications coiainG .,Vi thin 

these ootegort 9Be 

l. Sooret signalling and ·oryptogra ph.lp devices and sy.atema • 

a. .Eleotromagnotio we:V& ranote control devi.oee and systems 

which aro e.ppU:ce.ble to guided mieeiles. 

3. Eleotr.onio devices And systems r~pplicable to military 

oountenneas\.lres. ThiS ino ludes decepti:ve devices, 1.ntentional 

signal jamning generators and systems and teohniques for obtaini:ag 

a de!li.'red signal in the preaerufe of' int.enttona·l jm.nming. lt does 

not inol urle ordinary nois8 generator.a for laboratory test purposes. 

or techniques for obtdnine a desired signal through nn.turril 

intertoronoe. 

4. Applications, if any. in the gene~l olasa· of ''death 

rays", in which eleotriool l?artioleP.J or WAVe rsdintiana are ch.imed 

to exert de:letorious af'i'eots on huinan beings or me.chines• 

FOR THE CHIEF SIGNAL 01''1''ICJ:a1 

WILLIA!'i!. D. HALL 

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'.fieferenoo ia raade to a eo.nf'el"Once hold in your offioa· ·eoveml 

weeks ago at,ton.rled by Captain John H. Austin,, USNR11 Goneral Patent 

CoUWJei,,.Offioe of Hesaaroh ~Inventions,, Navy Department. Uajor '.faul A., Rose, JA.UD, 0£ my oi'!'loa nnd ~self. 

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At thio oo.i_U'ereJ10~ 11 ar~ong other things, you referred tO the .fact 

that the Corps of .Examiners in tho Richmond Pat0llt Office had brougbt 

to your attOlrtion approxime.taly fitty a.pplloc~tions, the aubjoct matter 

of $ich ~'l"QS dirootly related. to other applioatioris which ha.d betm 

placed in eoQreoy by you in acoordamo with the provisions ot the act· 

or October 60 1917,, as am.ended (35 U.£.C. 42). You naked me if the 

~7ar Dep£tr1ltlcnt wowd bo 1ntereatl)d in exrunining these appronnus-tely 

fifty oases to determine whethtir or .oat they, 1;oo, should be placed 

in 8QOl:'OOY \mder tho provisions of the Act,, and l inf'orme~ yo\i th.fit 

the War D.(,'pnrtmont would be q·uito pleaqed to excmine than with that 

tvnd in vi ""'• 

You nloo" &U(mestod thn~ you might perhapa conaid3r rrmldn~ ~hie a 

continuins prooooe and to" that ond you suggosted that I f'μrnish.•you 

Ql1 up-to-datt~ r:J,ist or tho pa.rt!:O\llar teohni.oal t1cldo in lahioh tho 

nri.ouu ceohni Q.al servicae csf 1'.:he War Department were intereotod_. 

I trnns~t 'l!luch a. liet herewith. in duplioato. oov~ring the 

pllrticular todW.ae.l fields of intaroet to the Arm1'. Air <Foroee, 

Ch&mice.l l'iar!''*ro Servi co. the Ordnance Dopartcient end the Ot'fioe ot 

the Chiflf 81gi:liii Oi'fio~r. Negnti ve repQrts were reooi wd from the 

otm> r toohn19.~~ s~rviooe of the War. Depart.mant. 

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e.xer.1ination 't.u ~~ Patent Qf.'fioe Yinr Divhion, I vdll a~nnge to 

hP.vo the .p;h>P,ar ', t'~ohnioal personnel examine thom p~~lyo 

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WAll DI VI SI ON 

Toa Owimdaaionor of Patents 

Frum a Pa·tent O!'f'ioo War Division 

The following procedure an eecurity matters is 

p:roposo.d after November s·a, 1945. 

Appl1011tions 1.D1dar Se~reay Order (Spi;oial Order 

oo.nti:Uuing se.Jre'Oy n.t'ter Novombor 30, 1945) may .be re-

.f'orrt:ld to the .Army and Navy i>atent .Advisory Board to 

oans1 der reeciasion o.t its req·llaet or arter cOJ)Dul ting 

the cxcuu1nor11 ns to applicnti orus which should be .removed f'ran suoreoy. Applica~iona. :iot -....nde:- seoroay 

order ltill be ordered· £or Anny and Nuvy ?11.tont Advisory 

l3oard only 1.f thl)re in a power to inapcot thio h :not 

nn exaadn~tion under authority of' Pu.blio 700 (an oxottpt1on to 1\ule 15), but a mera csonYenienoe to the 

advisory agency dw·ing the ·tic.e thcJ '\iar Division ic 

foJ.llC.tioniug. Non-seoret applicet.!.ou:J on ub:.do energy 

or olosol:Y 't"lr..ted to other eaor.et applications t1.ra to 

bo £orws.rded. to the Coomrl.aBioner with the axQlliiner' s 

ooi.1monts aa to ueod oJ:. e1turooy J the Comm.icsnia.ner u;il 

oonsicier·-tha iasunnce o!'. ll seoreoy order without .rsfarring the applioe.tiun to A':.-::ry and. NaV'.f )?a;teut Ad~sory 

Board. 

1'.ppl1cations undor Seorecy Ordor, Spocial 

, Handling, or tho. Three Year Rule awe to bo h0lldled 

in ~ocordanoe with 'the ·current .~17., pages 4 ruid 5, 

Seotion . 6. '.l.'ho apeoial preonut1ona iucii oo ted 011 pa~ 

3, Section~ for Speoial Handling appliontions cay 

now bo eliminated, and ua~ of the D-SB atioker is 

optional ns a meoreoy sticker. These applications 

need not be 6'"1t by messenc;er but 111 usu.nl c m~rse of 

.business. 

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or 8peqinl lian.dli:ng are to be newly indexed by serial 

numbar. di vision number, and inventor'.s iuuneei this 

follawa the indox now used in DoOket Oivinion for 

Three Yonr Rule applioatione. and may bo lator oo:n• 

bined thorowi th. Tho form 191 t'nnf'o.J,d used by I e sue 

Division is ava1lablo in quantity and ie adaptable 

to this purp_oao (see Dfllllple). The original oard is 

to be s~nt to tho examiner before filing for comnumt 

~e to the need ot eiocuritya the agenoy roqusstlng suoh 

statue will be asked to reconsider ita reoammGndation 

if tho examiner indioated eeourity ia unneoessary. 

A eimilar comment by tho exam.iner on three yeti~· a:pplioations would a11sist in eliminating eorne of them al~o. 

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fanfold) AP cards for liconee petitions .. for foreign filing 

of an npplicntian, nO\'I filed by serial ·number and ahowing 

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oanpletad aotion on the p~t~tions. should bo 'Cl.8.de a part 

of the applioatiun fihi record. This would dispose of 

the principal cnrd'reoord £ram tho Lioenee Section of _, thr:i rla.r Division. a serial number iudox ~iaolos~ng 

m11oh dntn corresponding to tha books in the Applioation 

Di v.i si.on but, almost necessarily open to the general 

fJUbHo in order to search for v!olation of' tlut lioenae 

la.vi. It would also simplify rojootion of' ponding 

a.pplico.tiona or determining invalidity of. iasood · 

patent a, whore corresponding foreign applicati<.'1'0 

h!\d been filed nnd the exietenoe of a license is· in 

question. 'l'he remaining AP ·oardo now fi_led by sttH.al 

number {bluo) but not showing com.ploted s,otion1 by 

pet:l:tion number (green. yollow a.rter October 1945), 

or hy lioense numbor (green only after Oatobctr 1945) 

would. bo of die;ht ·value nnd. need not be readily a\JcossJ.blo. The similar IHI cardit for lio~uie pcti ti one 

for foreign f:Uin~ of nn emen~ent, are filed by petition 

number-, petitiQJ:!6l"8 nrune, 8.'"ld lioens.e number., do not inolude RS m.uoh de.ta ne tho AP oards, Wid oould be made 

nvailab~e to the publio on request. 

Your a.pprovli\l 1 s requested_. 

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