Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia

Enforcing IP

Current research projects

IP Enforcement in Australia

Comparative Examination of Opposition Processes in Patent Law

Patent Litigation and the Settlement of Patent

Uncertainty and the success of innovation

IPRIA working papers

Elizabeth Webster and Paul Jensen, Do Patents Matter for Commercialization?, IPRIA Working Paper No 03/2009

Fiona Rotstein and Kimberlee Weatherall, Filing and Settlement of Patent Disputes in the Federal Court, 1995-2005, IPRIA Working Paper No 17/06 (November 2006)

Jason Bosland, Kimberlee Weatherall and Paul H Jensen, Trade Mark and Counterfeit Litigation in Australia, IPRIA Working Paper No 18/06 (November 2006)

Refereed Publications

Bosland, J. Weatherall, K. and Jensen, P. (2006) ‘Trade Mark and Counterfeit Litigation in Australia”, Intellectual Property Quarterly, 4, 47-377

Buddelmeyer, H., Jensen, P. H and Webster, E., (2009) ‘Innovation and The Determinants Of Company Survival’, Oxford Economic Papers.

Dent, C. and Weatherall, K. (2006) “Lawyers’ Decisions In Australian Patent Dispute Settlements: An Empirical Perspective”, Australian Intellectual Property Journal, 255-276

Duke A. and Richardson M., (2008) “Music Markets and Bad Actors in Copyright and Competition Law”. 16 (2) Competition and Consumer Law Journal. 16 (2): 203-219

Jensen, P. and E. Webster, (2008) “Labeling Characteristics and Demand for Retail Grocery Products in Australia”, Australian Economic Papers.

Jensen, P. and Webster, E., (2009) ‘Knowledge Management: Does Capture Impede Creation?’ Industrial and Corporate Change (forthcoming)

Jensen, P. H, Webster, E. and Buddelmeyer, H, (2008) ‘Innovation, Technological Conditions and New Firm Survival’, Economic Record.

Lim, K., Chesbrough, H. and Ruanyi, “Open Innovation and Patterns of R&D Competition,” Intl Journal of Technology Management, Special Issue on “Broadening the Scope of Open Innovation”. http://works.bepress.com/kwanghui/6/ (forthcoming)

Richardson , M, and Tan, D., (2009) “The Art of Retelling: Harry Potter and Copyright in a Fan-Literature Era” 14(1) Media & Arts Law Review 31-46.

Richardson , M., (2009) “Patents and Exhibitions”, Journal of World Intellectual Property.

Rotstein, F. and Weatherall, K. (2007) “Filing and Settlement of Patent Disputes in the Federal Court, 1995-2005”,’ 68 Intellectual Property Forum.

Somaya, D. & Williamson, I.O. (2008) “Rethinking the ‘War for Talent”, MIT Sloan Management Review, 49, 29-34

Somaya, D., Williamson, I.O., & Zhang, A., (2007) “Combining patent law expertise with R&D for Patenting Performance”, 18 Organization Science, 922-937

Non-refereed publications

Weatherall K., Bently, L., Webster, E. (forthcoming 2009) ‘IP Enforcement in the UK and Beyond: A Literature Review’, report for the Stragetic Advisory Board for IP Policy, UK.

IPRIA events

An Accounting Approach to Estimating the Return on Intangible Investments, Associate Professor Anne Wyatt, University of Technology, Sydney and Associate Professor Elizabeth Webster, University of Melbourne, 7 February 2007 (Melbourne), 15 February 2007 (Brisbane), 20 February 2007 (Sydney)

Australian and New Zealand IP Academics Conference, 26-27 June 2009, Melbourne

Business Models and Patent Strategies for “Multi Invention” Contexts, Dr Deepak Somaya, Robert H Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, 22 March 2007

Can Australia’s Biotechnology Industry Survive?, Professor Iain Cockburn, Boston University School of Management, 31 October 2006

Exhibition Moot - Oxford IP Moot Team, 10 March 2009, Melbourne

ISPs and the authorisation of their customers' copyright exploitations - an industry/academic forum, Melbourne, 5 February 2009

Patent Infringement: The results from an Australia Survey, Kimberlee Weatherall (UQ) and Beth Webster (IPRIA), 9 June ( Melbourne), 10 June ( Brisbane).

Pre-Grant And Post-Grant Amendments Under European, UK And US Patent Laws , Dr Noel Byrne, Adviser, Intellectual Property Law, UK, 4 September 2008, Melbourne

That IceTV is a hard case making bad law - An academics' debate, David Brennan (University of Melbourne), David Lindsay (Monash), Kim Weatherall (UQ), William van Caenegem (Bond), 28 May 2009, Melbourne, 9 May 2009, Sydney

The Copyright Amendment Bill 2006: The Scope and Likely Impact of New Library Exceptions, Emily Hudson, The University of Melbourne, 27 October 2006

Submissions

Chris Dent , Submission to ACIP’s Post-Grant Patent Enforcement Strategies Review, May 2007

Chris Dent , Submission to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in response to its Discussion Paper on An International Proposal for a Plurilateral Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, December 2007.

Short courses

Business Strategy Core MBA Class: Featuring the BlackBerry IPRIA/WIPO Case, Kwanghui Lim (IPRIA), Melbourne Business School

Mastering the Trade Mark System, Fiona Rotstein (IPRIA), Julia Adams, Michael Wolnizer

Media

Andrew Christie, 23 May 2007 Asia Pacific Focus, ABC Australia Network TV ‘ Thailand’s patent-busting’.

Andrew Christie, “Cyber crimes”, Radio New Internationalist Radio 3CR, 3 September 2007

Andrew Christie, ‘Epic case changes IP landscape’, Campus Review, 29 April 2008

External presentations

Andrew Christie, Australian Patent Opposition Proceedings, Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia and New Zealand Institute of Patent Attorneys 2008 Joint Conference, Auckland, 4 April 2008

Beth Webster and Kim Weatherall ‘Patent infringement in Australia: Results from a survey’ (with K Weatherall) IP Australia seminar, 21 May 2009.

Fiona Rotstein , “Third Party Patent Challenges in Europe, the United States and Australia: A Comparative Analysis”, European Policy for Intellectual Property Association, October 2008, Berne, Switzerland .