Robert P. Merges

Publications

• Lost Profits And Reasonable Royalties: Two Distinct Remedies for Two Separate Harms
  40 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 323 (2025) · Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 2025
• Patent Infringement, Private Law, and Liability Standards
  76 UC L.J. 161 (2024) · UC Law Journal · 2024
• Foreword, Volume 38, Special Issue
  38 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 253 (2023) · Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 2023
• After the Trolls: Patent Litigation as Ex Post Market-Making
  54 AKRON L. REV. (2021) · Akron Law Review · 2021
• Patent Markets and Innovation in the Era of Big Platform Companies
  35 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 53 (2020) · Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 2020

• Against Utilitarian Fundamentalism
  90 ST. JOHN'S L. REV. (2017) · St. John's Law Review · 2017
• Copyright and Distributive Justice
  92 NOTRE DAME L. REV. (2017) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2017
• A Few Kind Words for Absolute Infringement Liability in Patent Law
  31 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 1 (2016) · Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 2016
• Foundations and Principles Redux: A Reply to Professor Blankfein-Tabachnick
  101 CAL. L. REV. 1361 (2013) · California Law Review · 2013
• Priority and Novelty Under the AIA
  27 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. (2012) · Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 2012
• The Relationship Between Foundations and Principles in IP Law
  49 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 957 (2012) · San Diego Law Review · 2012
• Operating Efficiently Post-Bilski by Ordering Patent Doctrine Decision-Making
  25 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 1673 (2010) · Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 2010
• Individual Creators in the Cultural Commons
  95 CORNELL L. REV. 793 (2010) · Cornell Law Review · 2010

• High Technology Entrepreneurs and the Patent System: Results of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey
  24 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 1255 (2009) · Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 2009
• The Trouble with Trolls: Innovation, Rent-Seeking, and Patent Law Reform
  24 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 1583 (2009) · Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 2009
• An Estoppel Doctrine for Patented Standards
  97 CAL. L. REV. 1 (2009) · California Law Review · 2009
• Locke for the Masses: Property Rights and the Products of Collective Creativity
  36 HOFSTRA L. REV. (2008) · Hofstra Law Review · 2008
• A Transactional View of Property Rights
  20 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 1477 (2005) · Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 2005
• Introductory Note to Brief of Amicus Curiae in eBay v. MercExchange
  21 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 997 (2005) · Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 2005
• Incentives to Challenge and Defend Patents: Why Litigation Won't Reliably Fix Patent Office Errors and Why Administrative Patent Review Might Help
  19 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 943 (2004) · Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 2004
• A New Dynamism in the Public Domain
  71 U. CHI. L. REV. (2004) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2004
• One Hundred Years of Solicitude: Intellectual Property Law, 1900-2000
  88 CAL. L. REV. 2187 (2000) · California Law Review · 2000
• Intellectual Property Rights and the New Institutional Economics
  53 VAND. L. REV. 1857 (2000) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 2000

• As Many as Six Impossible Patents Before Breakfast: Property Rights for Business Concepts and Patent System Reform
  14 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 577 (1999) · Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 1999
• The End of Friction?: Property Rights and Contract in the "Newtonian" World of On-Line Commerce
  12 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 115 (1997) · Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 1997
• Contracting into Liability Rules: Intellectual Property Rights and Collective Rights Organizations
  84 CAL. L. REV. 1293 (1996) · California Law Review · 1996
• Intellectual Property and the Costs of Commercial Exchange: A Review Essay
  93 MICH. L. REV. 1570 (1995) · Michigan Law Review · 1995
• Uncertainty and the Standard of Patentability
  7 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 1 (1992) · Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 1992
• Rent Control in the Patent District: Observations on the Grady-Alexander Thesis
  78 VA. L. REV. 359 (1992) · Virginia Law Review · 1992

• News Media Satellites and the First Amendment: A Case Study in the Treatment of New Technologies
  3 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 1 (1989) · Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 1989
• Commercial Success and Patent Standards: Economic Perspectives on Innovation
  76 CAL. L. REV. 803 (1988) · California Law Review · 1988
• Intellectual Property in Higher Life Forms: the Patent System and Controversial Technologies
  47 MD. L. REV. 1051 (1988) · Maryland Law Review · 1988
• Apple v. Franklin: An Essay on Technology and Judicial Competence
  2 YALE L. & POL'Y REV. 62 (1984) · Yale Law & Policy Review · 1984