[Athena] Graeme Gooday, "International diversity in patent systems: a historical perspective", séminaire HSHI, 9 avril

[Arielle Haakenstad <labex-ehne1 AT listes.paris-sorbonne.fr>]

Chers collègues,

 

 

Graeme Gooday, Professor of the History of Science and Technology, University of Leeds interviendra le jeudi 9 avril à 17h00

au séminaire Histoire des sciences, histoire de l'innovation (Université Paris Sorbonne, UPMC, LabEx EHNE)

 à l’Institut des sciences de la communication (ISCC) salle de conférence RDC, 20 rue Berbier-du-Mets à Paris (Métro Gobelins).

Le sujet de la séance:

International diversity in patent systems: a historical perspective.

 

Résumé:

The emergence of the modern European patent system is conventionally narrated as a history of intellectual property internationally unified by the Convention de Paris pour la protection de la propriété industrielle in 1883. Yet this story cannot be adequately told, I argue, without reference to the alternative political conceptions of les brevets d’invention as forms of monopoly, privilege, protection, taxation or social contract, each configuring the inventor’s relationship to the state in different ways. These non-proprietorial understandings of patents enable us to contrast the chief patent systems of the 19^th century - American, British, French and German – that all lingered into the twentieth century. These four distinct systems were adopted differentially around the world not due to any inherent universal logic of intellectual property but via the economic imperatives of colonialism, post-colonial reconstruction and regional trade. Notably, the minimal bureaucratic burdens of the French system led to it being an early-favoured model in the industrialisation of Latin America and Southern Europe.

 

Lectures suggérées :

• Eda Kranakis, ‘Patents and Power:  European Patent-System Integration in the Context of Globalization’, Technology and Culture   48 (2007) pp.689-728

• Chapter  1 of Stathis Arapostathis & Graeme Gooday, « Patently Contestable Electrical Technologies and Inventor Identities on Trial in Britain »  (MIT Press, 2013) which will give some background to my paper but it is not essential.

    Dernière séance de la saison:

16 avril           Timothy H Stoneman (Georgia Tech Lorraine), Global Radio and Religion: A Protestant Voice of Europe, 1945-1970

Bien cordialement

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Arielle Haakenstad
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