On Petition for Rehearing in Banc in No. 263, Docket 27333.
WATERMAN, Circuit Judge.
The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, 35 U.S.C. §§ 181-188, authorizes the Commissioner of Patents to delay the grant of a patent on an invention the disclosure of which might be detrimental to the national security. When he believes such a danger to exist, the Commissioner is directed to "make the application for patent in which such invention is disclosed available...
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