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Robert P. Merges is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their primary research spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on the subfields of Management of Technology and Innovation, Political Science and International Relations, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence, and Law.

The main topics covered in their work include Intellectual Property and Patents, Law, AI, and Intellectual Property, Copyright and Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Law, American Constitutional Law and Politics, Legal Systems and Judicial Processes, and Smart Grid Security and Resilience.

Frequent co-authors in Robert P. Merges' research include Peter S. Menell, Mark A. Lemley, Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Marek Beluščák, and Miroslav Galbavý.

Their publications are often found in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Digital Commons - Michigan State University College of Law (Michigan State University)
  • Berkeley Technology Law Journal
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Acta Polytechnica Hungarica

Recent papers by Robert P. Merges include:

  • National Sovereignty and International Patent Law, 2020, Digital Commons - Michigan State University College of Law (Michigan State University)
  • Patents, Validity Challenges, and Private Ordering: A New Dispensation for the Easy-Challenge Era, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Patent Markets and Innovation in the Era of Big Platform Companies, 2020, Berkeley Technology Law Journal

Additionally, Robert P. Merges has contributed to works alongside Peter S. Menell, who authored papers such as "Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2023" published in 2023, and "Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2020 - Chapters 1 and 2" published in 2020, both appearing in SSRN Electronic Journal.

In terms of book publications, Robert P. Merges has been published by Cambridge University Press, including the title American Patent Law (2023).

Best Publications

  • On the Complex Economics of Patent Scope

    Robert P. Merges;Richard R. Nelson

  • The Control of Technology Alliances: An Empirical Analysis of the Biotechnology Industry

    Josh Lerner;Robert P. Merges

  • Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age

    Robert P. Merges;Peter Seth Menell;Mark A. Lemley

  • On limiting or encouraging rivalry in technical progress: The effect of patent scope decisions

    Robert P. Merges;Richard R. Nelson

  • Specialized supply firms, property rights and firm boundaries

    Ashish Arora;Robert P. Merges

  • Contracting into Liability Rules: Intellectual Property Rights and Collective Rights Organizations

    Robert P. Merges

  • As Many as Six Impossible Patent before Breakfast: Property Rights for Business Concepts and Patent System Reform

    Robert P. Merges

  • Software and Internet Law

    Mark A. Lemley;Peter S. Menell;Robert P. Merges;Pamela Samuelson

  • Justifying Intellectual Property

    Robert P. Merges

  • Institutions for Intellectual Property Transactions: The Case of Patent Pools

    Robert P. Merges

  • As Many as Six Impossible Patents Before Breakfast: Property Rights for Business Concepts and Patent System Reform

    Robert P. Merges

  • High Technology Entrepreneurs and the Patent System: Results of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey

    Stuart J.H. Graham;Robert P. Merges;Pamela Samuelson;Ted M. Sichelman

  • Of Property Rules, Coase, and Intellectual Property

    Robert P. Merges

  • The Law and Economics of Employee Inventions

    Robert P. Merges

  • Patent Law and Policy: Cases and Materials

    Robert P. Merges;John Fitzgerald Duffy

  • Intellectual Property Rights and Bargaining Breakdown: The Case of Blocking Patents

    Robert Merges

  • Patent Law and Policy

    Robert P. Merges;John F Duffy

  • The Control of Strategic Alliances: An Empirical Analysis of Biotechnology Collaborations

    Robert P. Merges;Josh Lerner;Josh Lerner

  • Commercial Success and Patent Standards: Economic Perspectives on Innovation

    Robert P. Merges

  • Property Rights Theory and the Commons: The Case of Scientific Research

    Robert P. Merges

  • The economic impact of intellectual property rights: An overview and guide

    Robert P. Merges

  • The End of Friction - Property Rights and Contract in the Newton World of on-Line Commerce

    Robert P. Merges

  • Uncertainty and the Standard of Patentability

    Robert P. Merges

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark A. Lemley
Mark A. Lemley Stanford University
Pamela Samuelson
Pamela Samuelson University of California, Berkeley
Francesco Parisi
Francesco Parisi University of Minnesota

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