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The Telephone Patents: Intellectual Property, Business, and the Law in the United States and Britain, 1876–1900
- Enterprise & Society
- Oxford University Press
- Volume 9, Number 4, December 2008
- pp. 591-601
- Article
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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.