Patents gagged in the name of national security
Posted by Sachin Garg on 10th July 2005 | Permanent Link
New Scientist has an article on how government denies (or rather bans) many technologies from getting patented (or even bieng disclosed further) in the name of national security.
Chances of any data-compression related technology to possibly become a victim of it sure seem low but it still sounds interesting.
(Complete article is only available to subscribers, update: you might want to note in any article such as this one that you can often get into the site with a username/password combination from bugmenot.com. Unfortunately, the database has a lot of stale entries for pay sites like newscientist.com, but it’s usually worth a try.)