“Forgotten Heroes and Forgotten Issues”: Business and Trademark History during the Nineteenth Century
重新评估19至20世纪初商标在商业中的重要性，指出商业史学家对饮料和加工食品行业的关注导致了对纺织和金属加工业的忽视，后者在知识产权国际制度演变、商标专利发展及解决商标冲突方面有独特贡献。
This reassessment of the importance of trademarks in business during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries reveals that the focus by business historians on the beverage and processed-foodstuff industries has resulted in comparative neglect of the textile and metal-fabrication industries. The trademark histories of the latter two show that they followed their own paths, which resulted in their adopting three solutions to trademark issues that differed sharply from the approaches taken by the former two. The textile and metalfabrication sectors participated heavily in the evolution of an international regime to protect intellectual property; featured prominently in the development of patents in trademarks and trade names; and devised unique institutional solutions to the emerging problem of conflicting private marks in the Lancashire cotton-textile and Sheffield edge-tool industries. The history of these two industries indicates that trademark protection was not sufficient to ensure international competitiveness and long-run survival.