De nouvelles ressources pour l’histoire des sciences et de la recherche scientifique : les archives de l’Institut national de la propriété industrielle

2021 ◽  
pp. 101-106
Author(s):  
Steeve Gallizia
Keyword(s):  
Propriété Industrielle

scholarly journals In the service of secrecy: An enveloped history of priority, proof and patents

2021 ◽  
pp. 135918352110288
Author(s):  
Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Property System ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Propriété Industrielle ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Double Envelope ◽  
Double Compartment

This article is about an everyday paper object: an envelope. However, as opposed to most other flat paper containers, the enveloppe Soleau can only be bought from L’Institut national de la propriété industrielle (INPI) in Paris. At the cost of €15 you get a perforated, double-compartment envelope allowing you to constitute proof of creation and assign a precise date to your idea or project. But the enveloppe Soleau is something much more than just a simple and cheap way by which you can prove priority in any creative domain. It is a material footprint anchored to centuries of practices associated with disclosure and secrecy, a gateway into the infrastructure of the intellectual property system and its complicated relationship to the forms of knowledge it purports to hold. The purpose of this article is to consider the making of the enveloppe Soleau as a bureaucratic document, a material device performing a particular kind of legal paperwork. In four different vignettes, the article tracks the material becoming of the enveloppe Soleau as an evidentiary receptacle, beginning by going back to early modern practices of secrecy and priority, continuing with its consolidation in two patents (from 1910 and 1911) to the inventor Eugène Soleau (1852–1929), and ending up, in 2016, dematerialized in the e-Soleau. As a bureaucratic document, the enveloppe Soleau shows just how much work a mundane paper object can perform, navigating a particular materiality (a patented double envelope); formalized processes of proof (where perforations have legal significance); the practices of double archiving (in an institution and with the individual) and strict temporal limitations (a decade). Ultimately, the enveloppe Soleau travels between the material and immaterial, between private and public, between secrecy and disclosure, but also between what we perceive of as the outside and inside of the intellectual property system.

Libre propos sur la propriété industrielle

Légipresse ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol N° 62 (HS2) ◽  
pp. 19-157
Author(s):  
Frédéric Benech
Keyword(s):  
Propriété Industrielle

Les Conseils en propriété industrielle

2020 ◽  
Vol Novmbr2020 (4) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Guylène Kiesel Le Cosquer ◽  
Henri Bourgeois
Keyword(s):  
Propriété Industrielle

La formation des professionnels de la propriété industrielle

2020 ◽  
Vol Novmbr2020 (4) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Martine Clémente ◽  
Yann Basire ◽  
Antoine Dintrich
Keyword(s):  
Propriété Industrielle

Petites et moyennes entreprises face au développement international de la propriété industrielle

2016 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Édith Blary-Clément ◽  
François Cousin ◽  
Laurence Joly ◽  
Bertrand Warusfel ◽  
Gabriel Galvez-Behar
Keyword(s):  
Propriété Industrielle ◽  
Petites Et Moyennes Entreprises
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