SAWS Patent laws undermining and surpressing energy innovation

[DiveMaster (Toby Yadon)]

Some of what the patent office has done is purposefully not patenting inventions to prevent their marketability.

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Remove Secrecy from Patents

SAWS, which stands for Sensitive Application Warning System, was a program used by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). It was not an official “patent policy” in the sense of setting rules for what could be patented, but rather an internal procedure for handling and disapproving certain patent applications. Here’s a breakdown of SAWS: Purpose: SAWS was designed to flag patent applications that were considered “sensitive” due to their potential for high publicity, significant…