The Telephone Patents: Intellectual Property, Business, and the Law in the United States and Britain, 1876—1900
通过研究英美早期电话产业，探讨商业策略与国家法律制度的互动，提出对专利与产业组织多层关系的新看法。
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.