Talk:Invention Secrecy Act

message: Quoting the tail end of the article:
:The types of inventions classified under this Act is itself a secret, but presumably include a wide range of cutting-edge technologies that are related to energy generation, munitions and explosives, cryptography, aerospace transportation and electronics.
Over time many secrecy orders have been lifted (this fact itself should be included). Is there one example of a secrecy order being put on anything related to "energy generation"? One inference many readers might make from this reference is that the government is classifying real 50 mpg carburetors or perpetual motion machines, presumably to favor the "powers that be". Wikipedia should not encourage such speculation. -Wfaxon 18:59, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I changed it to reflect what is known rather than speculation. Most of them are weapons-related patents, cryptography patents, and other things of that nature. --Fastfission 13:18, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The 1971 list of patent categories subject to a security review—the last list released—does indeed include methods for energy generation and conversion, such as "Solar photovoltaic generators – if > 20% efficient", "Energy conversion systems with conversion efficiencies in excess of 70–80%", and several other energy categories. See the recent article from Secrecy News, "Invention Secrecy Still Going Strong" and the linked .pdf, the Armed Services Patent Advisory Board's "Patent Security Category Review List". --71.174.168.44 (talk) 08:24, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Energy Generation?

message: From 2013. Wired: Government Secrecy Orders on Patents Have Stifled More Than 5,000 Inventions. --73.114.26.16 (talk) 13:31, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  New-ish article on secrecy orders 

message: Here was the text:
The subject matter of patents that are classified under this Act are secret, which makes it impossible to authoritatively say what types of technologies or inventions are being classified and hidden from public view. However, a review of patents that were previously classified (but have since been declassified) would seem to indicate that the vast majority of them are those patents that deal in areas of high military significance, such as cryptography and weapons development.
It was unsourced. I have assembled a growing list of sources here that may be helpful to restore that, and I'll see if I can later. In the meanwhile I've replaced it with this:
Invention Secrecy Act#1971 declassified Category Review List -- Very Polite Person (talk) 00:25, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Former "Categories of inventions that are liable to classification" section that I removed 

message: I've removed this here until we can source it. Putting it here for posterity as it's interesting enough to look into more later. I removed the other remaining uncited statistics factoids. Probably overkill to have that much. It would be better in a chart if we could even source that.   -- Very Polite Person (talk) 18:01, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The only way an inventor can avoid the risk of such imposed secrecy is to forgo patent protection."