Under de senaste decennierna har detta omrÄde utvecklats till ett tvÀrvetenskapligt och internationellt forskningsfÀlt i skÀrningspunkten mellan juridik och kulturvetenskap. Det Àr hÀr min egen forskning Äterfinns. Jag har fokuserat pÄ vikten av att studera samtida globaliserings- och digitaliseringsprocesser gÀllande kontroll av information, kultur och kunskap genom en historiskt förankrad analys.
Efter böckerna No Trespassing (2004) och Terms of Use (2008) har jag i min senaste bok Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information (Chicago University Press, 2015) angripit frĂ„gan om vetenskapens öppenhetsideal genom att följa hur personen Marie Curie blev personan âMarie Curieâ i sin karriĂ€r som vetenskaplig celebritet.
Mina framtida forskningsplaner innebÀr att i allt högre grad Àgna mig Ät immaterialrÀttens inverkan pÄ forskning och vetenskap samt i samband med detta utveckla en forskningsplattform om vetenskapens kulturella mediering och medialisering. Mitt nÀsta bokprojekt kommer att handla om patenteringens offentlighet.
Patents as Scientific Information, 1895â2020 (PASSIM)
VĂ„ren 2017 tilldelades jag â som första svenska kvinna inom humaniora och samhĂ€llsvetenskap â ett Advanced Grant frĂ„n European Research Council (ERC) för projektet âPatents as Scientific Information, 1895â2020 (PASSIM). Projektet startar 1 september 2017 och löper mellan 2017â2022. Se kort beskrivning nedan.Â
âHistory will remember Barack Obama as the great Slayer of Patent Trolls.â The headline from the 2014 March 20 issue of Wired credits POTUS with, perhaps, an unexpected feat. Referring to companies in the sole business of enforcing patents beyond their actual value, trolls are a recent installment in the history of an intellectual property whose ubiquitousness the Latin word PASSIM (âhere and there, everywhereâ) neatly captures. In the eye of the storm stands the patent bargain: disclosure of information in return for a limited monopoly. This contractual moment makes patents a source of information, the basis of new innovation. Or does it? By posing this simple question, PASSIMâs bold take on the legitimacy of intellectual property in the governance of informational resources follow patents as legal and informational documents during three historical âpatent phases,â producing a visionary and theoretically savvy interpretation of intellectual property that stems from its humanities-based and interdisciplinary project design. PASSIM shows a way out of current analytical gridlocks that earmark the understanding of the role of intellectual property in infrastructures â most notably the enclosure/openness dichotomy â and provides a fresh take on the complexity of informational processes. A key steppingstone in the PIâs career, her own contribution to PASSIM will be a work of synthesis, highlighting major tendencies in the history of patents as scientific information from 1895 to the present. Four complementary empirical studies target specific themes that strengthen PASSIMâs validity and impact: questions of copyrights in patents, scientistsâ patenting strategies both historically and today, the relationship between bibliometrics and patentometrics, and the status of the patent as a legal and informational document. Outputs include workshops, articles, monographs, policy papers and documentation of the projectâs experiences with interdisciplinary self-reflexivity.