BAD HARDWARE WEEK

Figures released by the US Patent and Trademark Office last week show that secrecy orders, granted under the US Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, were applied to 128 patents in the year to October 2007 - taking the total number to 5002. Of the new orders, 53 were on private inventors, against 29 in 2006.

"I suspect that the oldest secret patents date back to the early days of nuclear weapons," says Steven Aftergood, who tracks government secrecy issues for the Federation of American Scientists. "It would be nice to think [they] had the answer to global warming or some other miracle energy-generation technology, but it's more likely to be a nuclear-powered can opener," he says.

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