Military screwing people out of patents (weapons, money, prison, amendment)

[pittsflyer]

Why is the supreme court siding with the military on refusing to set supreme court precident. If someone who took no govt money is gaged with a secrecy order, regardless if they lifted it or not the persons first and fifth amendment rights were violated.

https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2016/1...-secrecy-2016/

How is the govt getting away with this and will this start to undermine patents and people will just start selling military tech to forign nations with out patents (basicly a demonstation and they write a check and get the whole kit).

Seems the US military is willing to classify it but not willing to pay the big bucks (8 figure amounts).

[Freak80]

Nobody care about protecting IP anymore. It’s even worse in places like China.

Look for innovation to slow, as top scientists & engineers realize that they won’t get a penny for any potential inventions.

[rstevens62]

You think this is crazy, read up on the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951.

Many people do not realize this is still in place and used today to suppress technology.

[pittsflyer]

So does it make sense if you have something with profound military application to just sell the whole kit to some other country for a large sum of money and be done with it?

From the article it sounds like the gag orders are only put in place when you file for a patent?

So for instance if I had a weapons system and I demonstrated what it could do in a video, presumably I could just sell the whole pelican case for 10 mil and that's that? Since there is no patent or gag order then I would be out of trouble?

The problem with trying to sell it to the US first is that I am a US citizen so I am within reach of what ever morally bankrupt behavior they want to put on me if they decide not to pay up but then classify it, I am stuck because I physically reside here and risk prison time, where as if I sell it over seas I dont have to deal with prison time etc.