That was my point, he seemed to be suggesting something almost like espionage if the patents had been sold to someone in contact with China or something, but th

That was my point, he seemed to be suggesting something almost like espionage if the patents had been sold to someone in contact with China or something, but the patents are already public and I don't think would be respected for this application. He could have argued they maybe should have originally been covered by https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act to begin with maybe.