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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>By Francesca Segré\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95335\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/25/95309/img_1528/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95335\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-95335\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/IMG_1528-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Genentech employees alight from one of the company's "gene buses" after arriving at work in South San Francisco. (KQED/Francesca Segre) \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genentech employees alight from one of the company’s “gene buses” after arriving at work in South San Francisco. (KQED/Francesca Segre)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When is a bus more than a bus? When it’s a luxury coach, complete with deep-tinted windows and sunroof and Wi-Fi and reserved for a sort of exclusive club: employees for high-tech firms in Silicon Valley and the Peninsula south of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple months, ago, San Francisco writer Rebecca Solnit wrote \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a piece\u003c/a> for the London Review of Books that pointed to the “Google Bus”—her collective term for all the buses whisking high-tech workers to their company campuses—as one of the most visible symbols of the region’s high-tech boom and the troubles it’s inflicting on those not lucky enough to participate. Solnit describes the buses alternately as spaceships for “our alien overlords” and as vehicles carrying postmodern coal miners to endless toil in postmodern mines. Here’s how she ends the essay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>” … There are ways in which technology is just another boom and the Bay Area is once again a boomtown, with transient populations, escalating housing costs, mass displacements and the casual erasure of what was here before. I think of it as frontierism, with all the frontier’s attitude and operational style, where people without a lot of attachments come and do things without a lot of concern for their impact, where money moves around pretty casually, and people are ground underfoot equally casually. Sometimes the Google Bus just seems like one face of Janus-headed capitalism; it contains the people too valuable even to use public transport or drive themselves. In the same spaces wander homeless people undeserving of private space, or the minimum comfort and security; right by the Google bus stop on Cesar Chavez Street immigrant men from Latin America stand waiting for employers in the building trade to scoop them up, or to be arrested and deported by the government. Both sides of the divide are bleak, and the middle way is hard to find.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>That’s a lot of cultural freight for a bus to carry, and my editor didn’t say anything about that when we talked about the assignment. Instead, my mission was to try to take my recording equipment and get on one of the buses run by Facebook, Google, Apple and the like, show a slice of life onboard, then give some idea where they fit into the bigger picture of the Bay Area transportation system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the widespread curiosity about the buses, and last year’s \u003ca href=\"http://stamen.com/zero1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cool project by Stamen Designs\u003c/a> to document company bus routes and stops, neither Facebook nor Google was interested in having a reporter ride one of their services or even in talking about them. But Genentech, the South San Francisco biotech firm, was happy to have me aboard one of its “\u003ca href=\"http://www.gene.com/media/news-features/genentech-gride-program-achieves-landmark-milestone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gene buses\u003c/a>.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nGenentech was one of the first companies to build its own fleet of private commuter buses for workers. Since starting the service, which carries people from as far away as Vacaville to the headquarters campus, the company says it has saved 100 million driving miles for employees who no longer have to use their private cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>All Aboard the ‘Gene Bus’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I climbed on a Genentech bus in Marin County one morning at 10 minutes to 7. About half a dozen workers got on at the Greenbrae park-and-ride lot. The other riders swiped their employee passes and settled into leather seats for the hourlong ride to the biotech company’s headquarters, about 30 miles away, in South San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some riders put in earbuds and nodded off. Others fired up their laptops to use the bus’s Wi-Fi to start ripping though work email. The morning bus was hushed; riders say the trip home in the afternoon is more lively, with people sharing snacks and laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he started riding the Genentech bus five years ago, Chris Blanchard had been driving alone from Novato to South San Francisco. “It was too much for me to handle, traveling all that way, across the bridge and through the city drinking numerous cups of coffee to stay awake. It was really exhausting,” Blanchard says. And he adds that without the bus service, he would have “probably taken another job closer to home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High-tech companies use the buses as a perk to recruit and retain talent. And the buses help spur productivity and spark spontaneous brainstorming among commuters. But none of that explains why Genentech got into the bus business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel McCoy started and still runs Genentech’s bus program. He recalls that the bus program really went big after South San Francisco required the company to add parking if it wanted to expand lab space at its headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not want to build a parking lot,” McCoy says. “We didn’t want to invest the real estate. We didn’t want to invest the capital expense. We thought buses would be a great win-win for the city. The city didn’t want the trips either—the traffic, congestion, the air-quality impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Better Than Free\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting employees to ride the bus was a challenge. “Anytime you are trying to get someone out of their car, you are competing with the drive-alone vehicle,” McCoy explains. “You want to provide interior and comfort that is equivalent to a nice BMW.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Genentech took it up a notch, and on top of the comfy seats and sunroofs, it added Internet connectivity. (And, by the way, when the Wi-Fi goes down, the engineers on board are handy at fixing it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The price tag for this sweet fleet of buses? Genentech spends $10 million a year to run its coach service. That includes the stipend the company pays –$2 a day — to get employees to ride the bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76996\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 220px\">\u003ca href=\"http://zero1-images.s3.amazonaws.com/scaled2.0_final_web_trimmed.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-76996 \" title=\"stamen private shuttle map\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/stamen-private-shuttle-map-220x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map developed last year by Stamen Designs to show bus stops and routes used by high-tech company buses. \u003ca href=\"http://zero1-images.s3.amazonaws.com/scaled2.0_final_web_trimmed.gif\">Click here for the full photo\u003c/a>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No one’s got any hard numbers on the total number of people riding private buses to work, but it’s safe to say it’s in the thousands. \u003ca href=\"http://stamen.com/zero1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stamen’s attempt\u003c/a> to document the bus lines last year estimated that the buses are providing 14,000 rides a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Goodwin, spokesman for the MTC, says company bus lines are an important addition to traditional bus and train systems. Public buses and trains get many riders close to work, but not right to the front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s what planners call the last-mile quandary,” Goodwin says. “And for companies that are not located right along or within a half-mile radius of the main transit lines, these private fleets can bridge that last mile gap in a way that’s cost-effective for those companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But are these private fleets an indication of a failed public transit system?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public transit can’t be all things to all people,” Goodwin says. He notes that, on average, people take 1.6 million rides on public transit in the Bay Area every day, and that number is expected to almost double over the next 25 years. Goodwin says he believes private bus service is a niche offering now and will remain that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the buses can change lives for those who have access to them. McCoy says numerous couples have met on the bus and later married.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it eases up to her office building, Genentech employee Paige Wallace finds simpler pleasures with the bus as she gathers her bags at the end of the ride. She commuted solo for 12 years, and now she’s a bus devotee. The biggest revelation? The bus gives her a nudge to get out of work at a sane hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s great!” Wallace says. “I get home and it’s still light out. And I’m home to make dinner and have it. Which is astonishing.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The morning bus was hushed; riders say the trip home in the afternoon is more lively, with people sharing snacks and laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he started riding the Genentech bus five years ago, Chris Blanchard had been driving alone from Novato to South San Francisco. “It was too much for me to handle, traveling all that way, across the bridge and through the city drinking numerous cups of coffee to stay awake. It was really exhausting,” Blanchard says. And he adds that without the bus service, he would have “probably taken another job closer to home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High-tech companies use the buses as a perk to recruit and retain talent. And the buses help spur productivity and spark spontaneous brainstorming among commuters. But none of that explains why Genentech got into the bus business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel McCoy started and still runs Genentech’s bus program. 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I think you’ll see attacks like this increase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With last week’s Boston marathon bombing still fresh in people’s minds, it’s unclear whether yesterday’s hack was meant to provoke fear, interfere with Wall Street or just embarrass an established news organization. At least two groups have claimed credit for the phony message, including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10014982/Who-is-the-Syrian-Electronic-Army.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Syrian Electronic Army\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/04/16/177421655/npr-org-hacked-syrian-electronic-army-takes-credit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which hacked NPR’s website\u003c/a> earlier this month. 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That may have visceral appeal to some Americans, but a number of experts argue a quasi-military approach to border security can’t deliver on its promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University of San Diego political science professor David Shirk is one of those critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A very significant percentage of undocumented immigrants never cross the border, because they never see the border, because they come here in an airplane or they come by other legal means and then they overstay their visas,” Shirk said. “You’re not going to solve that aspect of the problem by improving border security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shirk said the system the United States has in place now has as much to do with employers hungry for cheap labor as it does with immigrants looking for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Silicon Valley Gives a ‘Conditional Thumbs Up’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Silicon Valley leaders are encouraged by the Senate’s framework for immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Lam, with the \u003ca href=\"http://svlg.org/\">Silicon Valley Leadership Group\u003c/a>, gave the bill a conditional thumbs-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The green cards, the entrepreneur visa and, of course, lifting of the H1B cap — all those things are really good. 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We want to see details, so that’s of course my only hesitation,” Lam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>More on immigration in California\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/22/tech-companies-push-to-expand-skilled-worker-visas-rankles-critics/\">Tech Companies’ Push to Expand Skilled Worker Visas Rankles Critics\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/21/is-silicon-valley-losing-its-foreign-talent/\">Why Silicon Valley Is Losing Foreign-Born Talent\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/05/on-immigration-high-tech-and-ag-dont-meet-literally/\">On Immigration, High Tech and Ag Don’t Meet, Literally\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/immigration-reform-would-look-different-for-africans-and-afro-caribbeans/\">Immigration Reform Would Look Different for Africans and Afro-Caribbeans\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dan Turrentine is vice president of government relations and business development at \u003ca href=\"http://www.technet.org/\">TechNet\u003c/a>, a trade group that includes Google, Facebook, Apple and Yahoo. Turrentine said the Senate proposal should increase the total number of green cards going to high-tech workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Overall it’s a thumbs up,” Turrentine said. “But there are things that we want to see improved. Ultimately the system has to be workable for our companies. Otherwise increases in certain numbers are meaningless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate framework lifts the cap on H1B visas for foreign tech workers and creates more green cards for engineers and scientists who get graduate degrees here. It’s unclear whether giving visas to one group will mean taking them from another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The framework also includes the first-ever visa for start-up entrepreneurs. But Craig Montuori of Politihacks worries Congress will add requirements like a master’s degree, which would be contrary to the intent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell — these were all college dropouts,” Montuori said. “And there’s not a strong correlation between advanced degrees and entrepreneurial success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivek Wadhwa, a legal fellow at Stanford, worries the Senate’s comprehensive reform proposes so many things, it won’t win enough votes to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tech industry can’t look at this and start celebrating saying, ‘Hey we got what we wanted.’ There’s nothing clear cut in it,” Wadhwa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Silicon Valley lobbyists have signed on to comprehensive reform, but they agree it’s a fragile framework that could unravel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Early Opposition to the Bill\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people are already lining up to oppose the bill before all the details are hashed out in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raymond Herrera is the founder of the group \u003ca href=\"http://californiascrusader.com/\">We the People\u003c/a>. He opposes any legislation that would include a path to citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The American people do not stand with Obama, McCain, the Gang of Eight, either the Senate nor the House,” Herrera said. “These people are actually working to subvert our government, our way of life, our culture and we will resurrect the American democracy in the favor of the American people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/immigration-bill-filed-in-senate-opponents-hope-to-use-delays-to-kill-it/2013/04/17/2254c9a6-a74c-11e2-8302-3c7e0ea97057_story.html?hpid=z2\">Washington Post\u003c/a>, opponents of the proposal on Capitol Hill are “coalescing around a strategy to kill the bill by delaying the legislative process as long as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would provide the time and the opportunity to lard the bill with “poison pill” amendments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how the immigration proposal of 2007 sank before it came to the floor for a vote, under the weight of unpopular amendments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Barack Obama is urging fast passage this time around. Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York says the hope is to have the Judiciary Committee open the bill for amendments in early May and get it to the Senate floor by early June.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>By G.W. Schulz, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 10 years ago, Robert Gold sought to do what many Americans have dreamed of their whole lives: patent an idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_73030\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/08/13/google-cuts-4000-jobs-at-motorola-mobility/googleworkers-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73030\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73030\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/GoogleWorkers1.jpg\" alt=\"More patent applications are filed from Silicon Valley than any other region of the United States. (David Paul Morris/Getty Images)\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More patent applications are filed from Silicon Valley than any other region of the United States. (David Paul Morris/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gold developed a breakthrough in wireless communications that would help people speak to one another with less interference and greater security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then it disappeared like a dropped call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Defense concluded that his invention could be a national security threat in the wrong hands and slapped Gold’s patent application with a so-called “secrecy order” in 2002, which prevented him from discussing the technology with anyone. Five years later, his attorney succeeded in lifting the order, but by then, it was too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The window of opportunity, I believed, had really passed during those years,” Gold said. “So we have not been successful at commercializing the idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gold stresses today that he didn’t oppose the government’s position – public knowledge about covert communications techniques could undermine the military. The federal government sponsored his research and retained the right to use the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it also promoted an incentive by granting Gold shared patent rights, meaning he could file an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and seek to commercialize the idea. Accomplishing that, however, required petitioning to have the secrecy order lifted as the years passed with his invention living in the shadows. \u003c!--more-->\u003cstrong>Powers Questioned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a common refrain in the stump speeches of politicians that America is a nation of ideas, but Congress decided in 1951 that some of those ideas must nonetheless be kept hidden. Today, as Silicon Valley and other innovation centers churn out thousands of patents a year, some lawmakers wonder whether the government should have broader powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is known about secrecy orders is largely the result of Freedom of Information Act requests filed by groups like the Federation of American Scientists, an independent, nonpartisan think tank. Those documents show that the overall number of secrecy orders has steadily increased in recent years, totaling more than 5,300 by 2012, with some of them in effect for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of patent applications are manually examined each year under the Invention Secrecy Act and referred for a final decision to the Pentagon, National Security Agency, Department of Justice and, more recently, Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the patent owner’s perspective, you’re stuck in this legal limbo where the government) says you’ve got this valid invention, but there’s nothing you can do with it until maybe decades later,” said Mark Lemley, a technology law professor at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secrecy orders are rare, but violating one can result in prison time.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nA California man named James Constant filed his patent application in 1969 for radar technology that could track shipping containers, packages or components traveling along an assembly line. After his secrecy order was eventually lifted in 1971, Constant sought damages from the government, arguing that he couldn’t capitalize on the idea. When it reached trial years later in 1982, the court ruled against him, concluding that a “lack of business experience” impeded his chance of success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Constant said from his home in Claremont that the secrecy order caused him to incur “a substantial financial loss” and set him back for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the secrecy order was put on my patent, I had the only viable technology,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each case, the legal headaches occurred only after the inventor had spent no small amount of time and resources developing the idea in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have a Cold War approach to secrecy orders,” said Pat Choate, an economist and intellectual property expert. “If a secrecy order is imposed, you wind up with the inventor effectively having the technology taken away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lemley and others understand why defense officials might want to shield cryptographic technology that could prevent the government from secretly eavesdropping on the conversations for foreign enemies. But modern encryption can also protect consumers from identity thieves and allow human rights activists living under abusive regimes to communicate more freely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troubled by the threat of economic espionage from countries like China, lawmakers are asking if some inventions are so essential to the health of the nation’s economy that they, too, should be locked away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., directed the Patent and Trademark Office to consider whether secrecy orders should be extended for inventions that are not tied to the nation’s defense but could harm the economy if stolen, counterfeited and sold. Officials responded in April 2012 by asking the public what it thought and got skepticism from intellectual property and secrecy experts.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nMarket Forces\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who’s going to make the determination that something is economically viable? It’s usually the market making that determination,” said Robert Stoll, who retired as the nation’s patent commissioner in 2011 before joining a private practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stoll said such a move would do its own damage to the economy, and the nation would be better off filing patent applications in foreign countries and taking China or other violators before the World Trade Organization if they fail to honor intellectual property agreements now in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Culligan, legislative director for Wolf, countered that achieving recourse from the World Trade Organization can take far too long. The congressman’s goal was, first, to review secrecy orders in general after years of inattention from Congress and, second, to force the federal government to examine how strong present protections are for America’s most important ideas, Culligan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just wanted to start a conversation. We weren’t necessarily prescribing a solution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the law, an inventor can seek compensation if defense agencies choose to use the idea or if the applicant can prove damages were suffered by not being permitted to take it to the marketplace. But the process for doing so is arduous, economist Choate said. Among other things, evidence confirming the government simply took an inventor’s idea could itself be considered secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Hoffberg has handled one secrecy order in his 23 years as an intellectual property attorney. But that order was enough to threaten his client’s idea for a technology that could detect objects, including, potentially, stealth aircraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffberg’s client, James Greer of Alabama, lived under a secrecy order for eight years after his application was filed in 2000. During that time, it would have been a challenge to explore whether the idea could be exported to strategic allies of the United States as an anti-stealth technology, let alone identify possibilities outside of the defense community. Those possibilities included object tracking for “smarter” highways of the future and next-generation communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffberg argues that it was unjustified for the order to be in place for such a long period of time and that at least by 2004, the application would not have given adversaries a strategic advantage.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n‘No Value’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They kept us from fulfilling the purpose of the patent, which was to make an investment to bring a product to market,” Hoffberg said. “ … If the government wasn’t going to buy the product from us and wasn’t going to let us sell it commercially, we basically had no value.”\u003cbr>\nChoate and others want the government to stop publishing applications until a formal patent is issued, and if the application is denied, they want it destroyed so the inventor has a chance to try again or guard it as a trade secret and ultimately reap the rewards before it’s stolen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to secrecy orders, many of the technologies were backed by defense agencies to begin with. So it’s less of a surprise if such an order exists for the technical components of a nuclear weapons system, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But dozens of so-called “John Doe” secrecy orders are issued each year, affecting private individuals and businesses that might never enjoy a payoff from their invention, even though the government has no explicit interest in the technology. John Doe orders reached a high of almost 100 in 1998, though the annual number has declined in the new millennium, according to the Federation of American Scientists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So is the next Google hiding behind a secrecy order? It seems highly unlikely, but because of the shroud of secrecy, no one can know for sure, said science historian Alex Wellerstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said even one hidden technology carrying possible benefits for society that are not defense-related is enough to undermine the purpose of patents – encouraging invention. He and other experts want at least the criteria used for issuing secrecy orders made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The law says it just has to be detrimental to national security, which is vague,” Wellerstein said. “That doesn’t mean anything. It’d be nice if you had to actually pass (the patent application) to people who have business experience, not just people who make weapons and have a tendency of seeing lots of things as dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story was edited by Robert Salladay and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent, nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting is the country’s largest investigative reporting team. For more, visit www.cironline.org. Schulz can be reached at gwschulz@cironline.org.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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After his secrecy order was eventually lifted in 1971, Constant sought damages from the government, arguing that he couldn’t capitalize on the idea. When it reached trial years later in 1982, the court ruled against him, concluding that a “lack of business experience” impeded his chance of success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Constant said from his home in Claremont that the secrecy order caused him to incur “a substantial financial loss” and set him back for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the secrecy order was put on my patent, I had the only viable technology,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each case, the legal headaches occurred only after the inventor had spent no small amount of time and resources developing the idea in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still have a Cold War approach to secrecy orders,” said Pat Choate, an economist and intellectual property expert. “If a secrecy order is imposed, you wind up with the inventor effectively having the technology taken away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lemley and others understand why defense officials might want to shield cryptographic technology that could prevent the government from secretly eavesdropping on the conversations for foreign enemies. But modern encryption can also protect consumers from identity thieves and allow human rights activists living under abusive regimes to communicate more freely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troubled by the threat of economic espionage from countries like China, lawmakers are asking if some inventions are so essential to the health of the nation’s economy that they, too, should be locked away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., directed the Patent and Trademark Office to consider whether secrecy orders should be extended for inventions that are not tied to the nation’s defense but could harm the economy if stolen, counterfeited and sold. Officials responded in April 2012 by asking the public what it thought and got skepticism from intellectual property and secrecy experts.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nMarket Forces\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who’s going to make the determination that something is economically viable? It’s usually the market making that determination,” said Robert Stoll, who retired as the nation’s patent commissioner in 2011 before joining a private practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stoll said such a move would do its own damage to the economy, and the nation would be better off filing patent applications in foreign countries and taking China or other violators before the World Trade Organization if they fail to honor intellectual property agreements now in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Culligan, legislative director for Wolf, countered that achieving recourse from the World Trade Organization can take far too long. The congressman’s goal was, first, to review secrecy orders in general after years of inattention from Congress and, second, to force the federal government to examine how strong present protections are for America’s most important ideas, Culligan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just wanted to start a conversation. We weren’t necessarily prescribing a solution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the law, an inventor can seek compensation if defense agencies choose to use the idea or if the applicant can prove damages were suffered by not being permitted to take it to the marketplace. But the process for doing so is arduous, economist Choate said. Among other things, evidence confirming the government simply took an inventor’s idea could itself be considered secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Hoffberg has handled one secrecy order in his 23 years as an intellectual property attorney. But that order was enough to threaten his client’s idea for a technology that could detect objects, including, potentially, stealth aircraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffberg’s client, James Greer of Alabama, lived under a secrecy order for eight years after his application was filed in 2000. During that time, it would have been a challenge to explore whether the idea could be exported to strategic allies of the United States as an anti-stealth technology, let alone identify possibilities outside of the defense community. Those possibilities included object tracking for “smarter” highways of the future and next-generation communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffberg argues that it was unjustified for the order to be in place for such a long period of time and that at least by 2004, the application would not have given adversaries a strategic advantage.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n‘No Value’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They kept us from fulfilling the purpose of the patent, which was to make an investment to bring a product to market,” Hoffberg said. “ … If the government wasn’t going to buy the product from us and wasn’t going to let us sell it commercially, we basically had no value.”\u003cbr>\nChoate and others want the government to stop publishing applications until a formal patent is issued, and if the application is denied, they want it destroyed so the inventor has a chance to try again or guard it as a trade secret and ultimately reap the rewards before it’s stolen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to secrecy orders, many of the technologies were backed by defense agencies to begin with. So it’s less of a surprise if such an order exists for the technical components of a nuclear weapons system, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But dozens of so-called “John Doe” secrecy orders are issued each year, affecting private individuals and businesses that might never enjoy a payoff from their invention, even though the government has no explicit interest in the technology. John Doe orders reached a high of almost 100 in 1998, though the annual number has declined in the new millennium, according to the Federation of American Scientists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So is the next Google hiding behind a secrecy order? It seems highly unlikely, but because of the shroud of secrecy, no one can know for sure, said science historian Alex Wellerstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said even one hidden technology carrying possible benefits for society that are not defense-related is enough to undermine the purpose of patents – encouraging invention. He and other experts want at least the criteria used for issuing secrecy orders made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The law says it just has to be detrimental to national security, which is vague,” Wellerstein said. “That doesn’t mean anything. It’d be nice if you had to actually pass (the patent application) to people who have business experience, not just people who make weapons and have a tendency of seeing lots of things as dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story was edited by Robert Salladay and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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(Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Gabriel Bouys/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It has been called a lobbying group, a political action committee and a super PAC. But it is not really any of those.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s organized under \u003ca href=\"http://source2012.tumblr.com/post/25957855597/cts-explains-nonprofit-groups-a-k-a-501-c-4-s\">Section 501(c)(4)\u003c/a> of the federal tax code, which covers “social welfare” groups. As \u003ca href=\"http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopici03.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the IRS notes\u003c/a>, the law defines these groups very broadly: “An organization is operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare if it is primarily engaged in promoting in some way the common good and general welfare of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 501(c)(4)s enjoy charity status, but unlike the more familiar 501(c)(3)s, they can get involved in politics as long as they don’t campaign for or against a specific candidate. And unlike PACs and super PACs, they don’t file campaign disclosure reports with the Federal Election Commission. They can take donations of any amount and spend as much as they want, and they’re not required to say where their money comes from.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what sorts of things can organizations like Fwd.us spend their money on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can lobby members of Congress. They can produce ads and buy air time. They can hold rallies and events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what \u003cem>will\u003c/em> Fwd.us spend its money on? That’s not clear yet. We haven’t gotten hold of the group yet, but \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/fwd-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch quotes\u003c/a> Fwd.us campaign manager Rob Jesmer as saying “the group’s activities will include engaging the tech community in online advocacy, policy and fundraising.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tech industry already has a litany of high-powered lobbying groups, so analysts are predicting it will take a different approach. On its staff are people who specialize in digital and grassroots campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fwd.us has not been clear about how it will spend its money, but Zuckerberg’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mark-zuckerberg-immigrants-are-the-key-to-a-knowledge-economy/2013/04/10/aba05554-a20b-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html\">op-ed piece\u003c/a> in the Washington Post earlier this week explains why he and other Silicon Valley leaders launched the group. Fwd.us will advocate for \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/immigration_reform\">comprehensive immigration reform\u003c/a> to attract more innovative people. It will also advocate for education reform, with an emphasis on encouraging science, technology, engineering and math programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“We have a strange immigration policy for a nation of immigrants,” Zuckerberg wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mark-zuckerberg-immigrants-are-the-key-to-a-knowledge-economy/2013/04/10/aba05554-a20b-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html\">Washington Post editorial\u003c/a>. “And it’s a policy unfit for today’s world.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fwd.us has two offices: one in Silicon Valley and one in Washington, D.C. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/silicon_valley\">Silicon Valley team\u003c/a> will focus on public outreach: the digital components and membership efforts of the campaign. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/washington_dc\">Washington team\u003c/a> is focused on advocacy and research, according to the website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s president, Joe Green, was Zuckerberg’s roommate at Harvard, and the pair created Face Mash (the predecessor of Facebook) together, Business Insider \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/joe-green-missed-facebook-opportunity-2012-5\">reported\u003c/a> last year. But, on the advice of his father, Green declined Zuckerberg’s offer to run the business end of Facebook. He went on to found Nationbuilder, a software platform that helps community groups or leaders organize online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/washington_dc\">D.C. office staff\u003c/a> is led by Jesmer, a prominent Republican strategist and former director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He and research director Scott Sloofman, the former deputy director of the Republican National Committee War Room, are counterbalanced by Alinda Garcia, who helped lead the Latino campaign for Obama 2012, and Kate Hansen, formerly of the Democratic Governors Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/our_supporters\">people behind the group\u003c/a> are almost all high-profile Silicon Valley leaders. They include Drew Houston, the founder and CEO of Drop Box, Reid Hoffman, the founder and CEO of LinkedIn and Ron Conway, a prominent technology venture capitalist, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Donors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fwd.us takes a step towards transparency by listing some of its top donors, though not how much each gave. 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