The SPTO Historical Archive opens its doors during Open Administration WeekThe SPTO Historical Archive opens its doors during Open Administration Week Open Administration Week, held this year between 19 and 25 May, is a great opportunity for Public Administrations to open their doors and allow citizens to learn more about the services they provide or the assets they manage. It is an exercise in transparency and accountability that aims to promote an administrative culture based on these principles and a more active participation of citizens in public management. At the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office, O.A. (SPTO) we do not miss the opportunity to boast, whenever we have the chance, about our Historical Archive, a documentary center where Industrial Property rights registration files dating from 1826 to 1939 are kept. So we decided to celebrate the Open Administration Week by organizing an exhibition in the Historical Archive and opening its doors to all those interested. The exhibition focused on music, taking advantage of the fact that this year's World Intellectual Property Day had also focused on this artistic discipline. Those who came to the visit were able to witness the evolution of innovation in the music industry and the technological and scientific development between the 19th and 20th centuries, told from the files kept in the Archive. These documents are of enormous importance in historical terms, as they tell a very important part of the history of our country. However, they are also of great artistic value, as engravings, drawings, often accompany them and even paintings and watercolors whose main purpose was to help explain how the inventions recorded worked. Visitors were able to see from this documentation that music was an important part of the representation of the power of the Monarchy, the Church, the Army and the Administration. It also fascinated farmers in remote areas of Spain, where, for the first time, music was played on gramophones. Later, radio broadcasting was the phenomenon that allowed the popularization of music. Women were patenting and making musical instruments as early as the 19th century. This is just a small sample of the documents on display and preserved in the SPTO's Historical Archive, which are fundamental to understanding the evolution of Spanish science, technology and creativity since the beginning of the 19th century. See you in future editions! More information
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