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The Telephone Patents: Intellectual Property, Business, and the Law in the United States and Britain, 1876—1900

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

Christopher Beauchamp
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Abstract

This dissertation summary introduces a new perspective on the legal and economic history of patents in the late nineteenth century. Through a case study of the early telephone industry in Britain and the United States, the dissertation explores interactions between business strategies and national legal regimes, and proposes a revised view of the multi-layered relationship between patents and industrial organization.

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Dissertation Summaries
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 591 - 601
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2008. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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