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Underhay, J.; Burka, John F.

doi:10.1023/a:1007781917214

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“…Such a mark "differed from ordinary trademarks, which are, and always have been, assignable or capable of transmission only in connection with the business in which they are used." 86 Because these marks could be sold as personal property, the current holder did not have to be the same person originally awarded the mark by the Company. For example, in 1843, George Wostenholm & Son, a cutlery manufacturer, acquired the "pipe" trademark from William Hutchinson, a manufacturer of surgeons' instruments.…”

Section: Patents As Trademarksmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Forgotten Heroes and Forgotten Issues”: Business and Trademark History during the Nineteenth Century

Higgins¹

2012

Bus. Hist. Rev.

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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 confl icting private marks in the Lancashire cotton-textile and Sheffi eld edge-tool industries. The history of these two industries indicates that trademark protection was not suffi cient to ensure international competitiveness and long-run survival.rademarks are beginning to receive the attention they deserve within business history. The neglect of these important intangible assets is surprising, because their economic advantages are well established. 1 Discussions about trademarks have generally occurred in an ad

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Section: Patents As Trademarksmentioning

confidence: 99%