Obtaining a foreign filing license for a design patent application is a critical requirement as for all patent applications.
Though typically routine, urgency takes a facsimile connection.
But what happens when a design is designated confidential and secret as critical to national defense?
And why are there suddenly so many?
Classified under 35 U.S.C. §181, a design otherwise in condition for allowance joins processing status rank D-10.
They might never be public knowledge but a march through USPTO disclosures reveals hi-tech opportunities for design patenting.
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