A European Research Council Advanced Grant project 2017-2022.
Patents as Scientific Information 1895-2020 (PASSIM)
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(2021) Online Seminar, jointly arranged with ISHTP: “Cultural Heritage and IP”, Fiona Macmillan (Birkbeck) in conversation with Jose Bellido (Kent) and Kathy Bowrey (UNSW). Chair: Eva Hemmungs Wirtén. May 20.
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(2021) Online Seminar, jointly arranged with ISHTP: “Patent Capital in the Covid-19 Pandemic”, Hyo Yoon Kang (PASSIM, Kent Law School) in conversation with Mario Biagioli (UCLA) and Javier Lezaun (Oxford). Chair: Eva Hemmungs Wirtén. May 4.
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(2021) Online Seminar, jointly arranged with ISHTP: “Commodification of creativity”, Kathy Bowrey (UNSW) in conversation with Martin Fredriksson (PASSIM, LiU) and Brad Sherman (Uni of Queensland). Chair: Eva Hemmungs Wirtén. April 22.
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(2021) Article: Björn Hammarfelt, Linking science to technology: the patent paper citation and the rise of patentometrics in the 1980s, Journal of Documentation. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-12-2020-0218
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(2021) Online Workshop, “From Agencies to Patent Offices”, a collaboration with Fundación Elzaburu, Madrid. April 8.
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(2020) Online Seminar: Annika Öhrner and Isabelle Strömstedt: Patents on Display and Methods of Exhibition Analysis, Norrköping/Online December 1 Info document (PDF). Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKbzgPzGRGA
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(2021) PASSIM workshop two: ”Patents as Capital,” Nobel Museum, Stockholm, September 7-10. Please note that this workshop was initially scheduled for 2020 ( Call for papers) but has been postponed one year due to the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. A full program will be posted here early 2021.
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(2020) 60% seminar for PASSIM Ph.D. candidate Isabelle Strömstedt, presenting her thesis, preliminarily entitled The Patent Office on Display: Intellectual Property in the Public Eye. Special reader: Associate Professor in International Legal History, Marianne Dahlén, Faculty of Law, Uppsala University. September 24, 13.15-15.00.
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(2020) PASSIM workshop two: ”Patents as Capital,” Nobel Museum, Stockholm, September 8-10. Call for papers
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(2019) PASSIM workshop one: ”Intellectual Property for the Un-discipline(d),” Norrköping, September 10-12. Final program Call for papers Webcast: part 1, part 2
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(2019) PASSIM Special Guest Seminar: Dr David Pretel, El Colegio de México, ”Empires of Useful Knowledge: Patents and Colonial Technology in the Atlantic World.” September 9. Flyer
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(2019) Workshop paper: Isabelle Strömstedt, "Celebrating Patents:the Swedish Patent Office’s Jubilee Exhibition of 1941.” “Intellectual Property and the Visual,” the 11th annual workshop of The Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP), UTS, Sydney, July 4-6, 2019. Abstract www.ishtip.org
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(2019) Workshop paper: Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, "Evidence, Envelopped:Something on Proof, Priority and Patents (but not necessarily in that order),” “Intellectual Property and the Visual,” the 11th annual workshop of The Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP), UTS, Sydney, July 4-6, 2019. Abstract www.ishtip.org
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(2019) Workshop presentation: Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, "Patents as Scientific Information, 1895-2020,” Patent Law and Scientific Information Workshop QUT Faculty of Law Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Research Program, Brisbane, 9 July 2019, https://youtu.be/nin0btsorwM
- (2019) Webinar: José Bellido and Matts Lindström: Microfilm, Law and Scientific Information, Norrköping, May 7 Info document (PDF). Video: https://youtu.be/FJ57_YuO1PE
- (2019) Article: Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, How patents became documents, or dreaming of technoscientific order, 1895-1937, Journal of Documentation 75 (3), pp. 577-592, https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-11-2018-0193.
The teamShow/Hide content
Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
Professor of Mediated Culture at Linköping University, Sweden.
In addition to managing and leading PASSIM's different activities, the PI's own work in the project will be a study on the multifaceted ways by which patents have evolved within a history of information order, focusing on the networks and technologies that have formed patents into "boundary objects" traveling across the borders of law, science and information.
José Bellido
Senior lecturer in Law, University of Kent, United Kingdom
My current research focus is on the history of character merchandising but I am also interested in the links between industry and intellectual property and the changes in patent offices throughout the twentieth century.
In PASSIM I will explore the question of copyright of patent specifications, which raised questions of authorship, technologies of copying and transfer as paper documents.
Johanna Dahlin
Postdoctoral fellow in Culture Studies at Linköping University, Sweden.
My main research interests are heritage and memory work, and more recently the enclosure and privatization of common resources.
My contribution to PASSIM will be a study on secrecy and securitization in relation to scientific discoveries in the Soviet Union.
Martin Fredriksson
Associate Professor in Culture Studies at Linköping University, Sweden.
My research has mainly been on piracy and the history of copyright, and I am currently researching biopiracy and traditional knowledge.
Within PASSIM, I will be looking at how counter-discourses to patent expansionism are formulated in relation to the global political agenda shifts from the new utopias of the 1970s to the cementation of a globalized economic order in the 1990s.
Björn Hammarfelt
Senior Lecturer in Library and Information Science at the University of Borås and Researcher at Linköping University, Sweden
My current research is situated in the intersection between information studies and sociology of science, with the organization and communication of knowledge in focus.
In PASSIM I will work on an historically informed study on the concept of 'citation' in two main scientific/technical documents, the patent and the scientific paper.
Hyo Yoon Kang
Senior Lecturer in Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent, United Kingdom.
My primary research focus is on intellectual property law, especially patents, scientific and legal knowledge techniques, the value and valuation of intellectual property.
As part of the PASSIM project, I will examine scientists’ use of patent documents and information contained in them. The question of patent value will be elucidated from the point of view of the intended users.
Mattis Karlsson
Ph.D. Candidate in Culture Studies at Linköping University, Sweden.
Primarily interested in how science and scientific knowledge is made and mediated, I am currently working on a dissertation project on the discovery of the prehistoric human species Denisova Hominin.
In PASSIM I work as a Research Assistant, responsible for administrative coordination, running our website and Twitter account.
Gustav Källstrand
PhD, Senior Curator, Nobel Center and Researcher at Linköping University, Sweden.
I am interested in the cultural history of science; how science is ascribed meaning in culture and society, particularly in the history of the Nobel Prize.
My PASSIM-project will look at which forms of information was granted the most importance by the scientific Nobel Committees - papers, patents or personal recommendations.
Johan Larson Lindal
Phd Candidate in Culture Studies at Linköping University, Sweden.
I am studying the conceptualization and agency of works of music in interwar Europe with particular interest in mediation, intellectual property, and the ontology of art.
In PASSIM, I work as a Research Assistant.
Isabelle Strömstedt
Ph.D. Candidate in Culture Studies at Linköping University, Sweden.
My current research focus on the representation and construction of the Swedish patent office.
My contribution to PASSIM will be in the shape of my thesis, which is a collection of articles that focuses on how the Swedish Patent and Registration Office has presented itself to the public through different outlets, for example the patent office exhibition at the Swedish Museum of Science and Technology in 1941.
