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The Patent Office on Display: Intellectual Property in the Public Eye
Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Culture, Society, Design and Media. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5510-3555
2023 (English)Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

In 1941, the Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary as an independent agency. The major event of this celebration was an exhibition at the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology titled Idé – Patent – Produkt. In this dissertation, I start from this exhibition to examine how it was used to promote the patent office and its viewpoints. This is done through a microhistorical study influenced by theoretical underpinning from narratology, storytelling, and material culture. The overarching research questions concerning what narratives were presented in the exhibition and how these narratives were present in the planning and displayed objects are answered by studying material from the archives of the Swedish Museum of Science and Technology and PRV.

Studying the planning of the exhibition provides information about PRV's influence on the exhibition, the collaboration between museum representatives and PRV's exhibition committee, and how the exhibition was motivated when PRV sought funding. In my examination of the exhibition, I chose three objects - patents, uniforms, and inventions - that were especially interesting as representations of the materialization of the patent system. The exhibition committee used these objects to establish a narrative of PRV as a reliable, effective, and bureaucratic agency to counteract negative press reports. Museum staff used objects from the museum collection to establish PRV and the patent system as essential entities in the master narratives of the inventor and Swedish inventiveness. By studying Idé – Patent – Produkt, this dissertation contributes to the existing research on intellectual property by examining how the patent office used a celebration to exhibit the positive aspects of the patent system and defend it from critique.

Abstract [sv]

1941 firade Patent- och Registreringsverket (PRV) femtio år som en självständig myndighet. Ett utmärkande event vid detta firande var en utställning på Tekniska museet med titeln Idé – Patent – Produkt. I den här avhandling utgår jag från Idé – Patent – Produkt för att undersöka hur den användes för att främja patentverket och dess synpunkter. Detta görs genom en mikrohistorisk studie influerad av teoretiskt grunder från narratologi, storytelling och materiell kultur. De övergripande forskningsfrågorna om vilka berättelser som presenterades i utställningen och hur dessa berättelser återfanns i planeringen och de visade föremålen besvaras genom material från Tekniska museets och PRV:s arkiv.

Att studera planeringen av utställningen ger kunskap om PRV:s inflytande på utställningen, samarbetet mellan museiföreträdare och PRV:s utställningskommitté samt hur utställningen motiverades när PRV sökte medel. I min granskning av utställningen valde jag tre föremål - patent, uniformer och uppfinningar - som var särskilt intressanta som representationer av patentsystemets materialisering. Utställningskommittén använde dessa föremål för att etablera en berättelse om PRV som en pålitlig, effektiv och byråkratiskt ämbetsverk som ett svar på negativa pressrapporter. Museipersonalen använde föremål ur museisamlingen för att etablera PRV och patentsystemet som väsentliga i huvudberättelser om uppfinnarens och svensk uppfinningsrikedom. Genom att studera Idé – Patent – Produkt bidrar denna avhandling till den befintliga forskningen om immateriella rättigheter genom att undersöka hur patentverket använde ett firande för att visa upp de positiva aspekterna av patentsystemet.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press, 2023. , p. 209
Series
Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences, ISSN 0282-9800 ; 860
Keywords [en]
Exhibition, Narrative, Microhistory, Anniversaries, Patent system
National Category
History of Technology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-197221DOI: 10.3384/9789180752961ISBN: 9789180752954 (print)ISBN: 9789180752961 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-197221DiVA, id: diva2:1791932
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2023-09-22, K2, Kåkenhus, Campus Norrköping, Norrköping, 10:15 (English)
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Available from: 2023-08-28 Created: 2023-08-28 Last updated: 2023-09-01Bibliographically approved

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