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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(4):591-601; doi:10.1093/es/khn084
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The Telephone Patents: Intellectual Property, Business, and the Law in the United States and Britain, 1876–1900

Christopher Beauchamp

CHRISTOPHER BEAUCHAMP is a Microsoft Fellow in the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University

Contact information: 417 Robertson Hall, Woodrow Wilson School of Government, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1013. E-mail: cbeaucha{at}princeton.edu.

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.

This dissertation was completed at Cambridge University in 2007. I am grateful for the guidance of my supervisor, Professor Martin Daunton, and for the financial support of the Arts and Humanities Research Board, the Economic History Society, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Heartfelt thanks to Anisha Dasgupta.


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