La Mela, 2020
- Matti La Mela. 2020. Rejected patents in Finland in 1864-1884: Industrial policy, copies or impossible ideas? Tekniikan Waiheita / Finnish Journal for the History of Technology. Vol 38 No. 3-4. https://journal.fi/tekniikanwaiheita/article/view/100575, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0340-9269, DOI: https://doi.org/10.33355/tw.100575
- Matti La Mela, "Hylätyt patentit vuosina 1864-1884: teollisuuspolitiikkaa, kopioita vai liian huimia ideoita?" [Rejected patents in Finland in 1864-1884: Industrial policy, copies or impossible ideas?] (Finnish Journal for the History of Technology Tekniikan Waiheita, 3-4/2020, journal.fi/tekniikanwaiheita).
- La Mela is at Uppsala Universitet; he has ongoing research on patents
- Tekniikan Waiheita is a quarterly journal on the history of technology published by the Finnish Society for Technology History.
- This work is in Finnish. The data is available publicly, here: Applications on patents in Finland 1864-1884 - Patentteja koskevat hakemukset Suomessa 1864-1884. There's a spreadsheet with a row for each of about 250 Finnish patent applications that were processed by the Finnish Senate in 1864-1884. The data includes approved, rejected applications and administrative matters. It looks like it'll be easy to use, after translation. Few of these have anything to do with with aeronautics, and not all the words are translated by google translate, but it gives us a look at the frame of patent data. IPC categories are included.
Abstract (auto-translated and paraphrased)
The article examines patent applications rejected in Finland and examines the patent system of autonomous Finland as part of the construction of the country's economic institutions at the end of the 19th century. Patents have been used in research technical and economic development, but the use of rejected patents and the discussion of patent authorities is uncommon. The article goes through the patent petitions received by the Senate from 1864 to 1884 and asks which were rejected and why. The article shows that rejected patent applications highlighted foreign applicants, especially Swedish applicants. The most common reasons for rejection were that the invention was not new from the point of view of the authorities or that the application was incomplete. In assessing patent applications, the authorities consulted experts and processed object evidence. The article shows that the Finnish patent authorities followed modern practices related to patent investigations as early as the early 1870s – before the actual legislation and more rigorously than in Sweden, for example. Although reference was made in a few cases to the interests of domestic industry, the guidance and delimitation of industrial property rights took place, above all through the stated patent principles adopted by the authorities.
| Original title | Rejected patents in Finland in 1864-1884: Industrial policy, copies or impossible ideas? |
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| Simple title | Rejected patents in Finland in 1864-1884: Industrial policy, copies or impossible ideas? |
| Authors | Matti La Mela |
| Date | 2020 |
| Countries | FI |
| Languages | fi |
| Keywords | patents, rejected patents, patent administartion |
| Journal | Tekniikan Waiheita |
| Related to aircraft? | 0 |
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