Uppsala Patent History Research Group

The origins of the Uppsala Patent History Research Group can be traced back to 2010 and the publication of the anthology "Patent och pirater" (Patents and pirates) by the Centre for Business History where Professor Fredrik Tell and Professor Mats Larsson contributed with ...

 

Later the same year they got funding for a research project on patent strategies in the Swedish 'genius industry' (snilleindustrin).

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In 2011 PhD David Andersson joined Fredrik and Mats as a PhD student. Andersson's thesis would form the basis of what is now the Swedish Historical Patents Database...

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In 2017 Riksbankens Jubileumsfond funded the infrastructure project "The Swedish Historical Patents Database"...

Collaborations was initiated with the Swedish Intellectual Property Office (PRV) and Helsinki University/Aalto University through a research grant from the Peter Wallenberg foundation.​

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