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115 Review of Applications for National Security and Property Rights Issues

MPEP SECTION SUMMARY

Applications are screened upon receipt in the USPTO for subject matter that, if disclosed, might impact national security. All applications are required to be cleared from secrecy review before forwarding to issue.

 

Whenever publication or disclosure by the publication of an application or by the grant of a patent on an invention in which the Government has a property interest might, in the opinion of the head of the interested Government agency, be detrimental to the national security, the Commissioner of Patents upon being so notified shall order that the invention be kept secret and shall withhold the publication of an application or the grant of a patent therefor under the conditions set forth hereinafter.


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