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Registration of trademarks and patents. Descriptive report of an invention patent for 20 years, for Spain, of a typewriter in favor of the engineer Camilo Olivetti & Co domiciled in Ivrea (Italy)

Date
1930
Archive
National Archive of Catalonia
Document type
Textual
Reference code
ANC1-422-T-43
Link to the online document
Description

The descriptive memory of the patent for a typewriter, registered in 1930 in favor of the engineer Camilo Olivetti & Co, domiciled in Ivrea (Italy), is a testimony to the development of office automation and economic relations between Catalonia and Europe. This document shows how technological innovation was channeled through intellectual protection systems, and how European companies influenced the modernization of Catalan administrative processes. It is part of the themes of trade, economy and international relations, and reflects the integration of Catalonia in the European networks of production, innovation and technological exchange.