Robert Merges Writes New Book, Justifying Intellectual Property

Patently-O, October 14, 2011 by Dennis Crouch
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2011/10/merges-justifying-intellectual-property.html

Merges believes that utilitarianism is important to intellectual property…. As Merges writes in his introduction “[m]aximizing utility, I have come to see, is not a serviceable first-order principle of the IP system. It is just not what IP is really all about at the deepest level.”