Boye Benzon

"At a meeting between Ruben, Erik Torudd, and the company’s lawyer, Carl Borgström, Ruben initially refused to acknowledge that Benzon was the true inventor. However, after some persuasion, he was forced to recognize the accomplished fact: that Boye Benzon could sue both Ruben and the company. But even then, he did not want to admit that Benzon was the true inventor. He had a very different perception of who is an inventor and who is not. “We constantly come back to the same question: Who really is an inventor, the person who orders a solution to a problem or the one who comes up with the solution?” he argued against the more conventional definition of inventor that Torudd and Borgström advocated."

"Boye Benzon, one of the designers at Åkerlund & Rausing, invented a handle that was clamped onto the long side of the tetra where the seal was located. As a result, the tetra could function like a regular jug, only made of paper. Harry Järund believed that the handle was so good that it did not require any further development work. However, when he presented the idea to Ruben, he received no response at all. Ruben could not see anything good about the handle. But a month later, after he had finished contemplating, he wanted the handle to be patented as soon as possible. The strange thing was that in front of Erik Torudd, who was to draft the patent application, he claimed that he himself was the inventor. Torudd, who knew the true circumstances, advised Ruben against it and stated that he wanted nothing to do with the matter."