The International context
Current research projects
Comparative Examination of Opposition Processes in Patent Law
IPRIA working papers
Anne Leahy , Donald MacLaren, David Morgan, Kimberlee Weatherall, Elizabeth Webster, Jongsay Yong, In The Shadow of the China-Australia FTA Negotiations: What Australian Business Thinks About IP, IPRIA Working Paper, 07/07, (September 2007)
Fiona Rotstein and Chris Dent, Third Party Patent Challenges in Europe, the United States and Australia: A Comparative Analysis, IPRIA Working Paper No. 09/2008
Refereed publications
Christie A., Waller S. and Weatherall K., (2007) “Exportando os Dispositivos da “US Digital Millennium Copyright Act” por Meio de Acordos de Livre-comércio”, in Rodrigues and Polido, Propriedade Intellectual Novos Paradigmas Internacionais, Conflictos e Desafios, 185-200, Elsevier Editora Ltda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (ISBN 978-85-352-2703-1)
Christie, A, Waller, S., and Weatherall K., (2007) Exporting the DMCA through Free Trade Agreements, in Heath and Kamperman Sanders (eds), Intellectual Property and Free Trade Agreements, 211-243, Hart Publishing, Oxford, UK and Portland OR, USA
Jensen, P., Palangkaraya, A. and Webster, E ,(2008) ‘Application Pendency Times and Outcomes across Four Patent Offices’, Australian Intellectual Property Journal.
Leahy, A., MacLaren, D., Morgan, D., Weatherall, K., Webster, E., and Yong, J. (2008) ‘In the Shadow of the China–Australia FTA Negotiations: What Australian Business Thinks About IP’, Economic Papers, 27(1) 1-18.
Palangkaraya, A., Jensen, P. and Webster, E., (2008) ‘Applicant Behaviour in Patent Examination Request Lags’, Economics Letters.
Non-refereed publications
Jensen, P. Palangkaraya, A. Webster, E. and Yong, J. (2008) ‘The effect of raising the Australian statutory inventive step on the Australian global production system’ report prepared for IP Australia. IPRIA Occasional paper.
IPRIA events
In the Shadow of the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement Negotiations: What Australian Business Thinks About IP, Kimberlee Weatherall, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland and Dr Jongsay Yong, MIAESR, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne (21 February 2008), Sydney (22 February 2008), Brisbane (28 February 2008). Held in association with the Australia China Business Council.
Manner of Manufacture, Associate Professor David Brennan, Melbourne Law School, 10 November ( Sydney), 11 November ( Brisbane), 14 November ( Melbourne)
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
Media
Elizabeth Webster, “Protection Part and Parcel of Export Strategies”, Australian Financial Review, Intellectual Property Special Issue, p4, 12 February 2009
External presentations
Andrew Christie, “Finetuning the System: The Role of Limitations and Exceptions in Intellectual Property Law”, Annual Congress of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property, Munich, 22 July 2008
Andrew Christie, Exporting the DMCA through Free Trade Agreements, International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property, Annual Congress 2007, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, July 2007
Beth Webster , ‘Applicant Behaviour in Patent Examination Request Lags’, RIETI International Workshop on Economic Insights into Patent System Design, December 2008
Beth Webster , ‘Misclassification in Patent Offices’, XCVIIIth International Conference of the Applied Econometric Association, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, December 2008
Kim Weatherall and Jongsay Yong, In the Shadow of the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement Negotiations: What Australian Business Thinks About IP, IP Australia, December 2007
Kwanghui Lim and Riitta Katila (co-organizers and co-chairs), Measuring Knowledge Flows: Patent and Non-Patent Data, Academy of Management Conference 2008 Professional Development (forthcoming in August 2008). Note: In January 2008, Lim and Katila were invited to organize and chair a special workshop at the Academy of Management Conference (Aug 2008) in Anaheim.
Kwanghui Lim and Riitta Katila, “Professional Development Workshop on Measuring Knowledge Flows using Patent and Non-Patent Data”, Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, CA, August 2008
Kwanghui Lim , Wenyue Zhuang and Poh-kam Wong , “Old Technological Capability and New Technology Adoption: Firm’s Technology Portfolio Management during Technological Transitions”, Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, CA, August 2008
Megan Richardson and Susy Frankel, ‘IP Aspects of Free Trade Agreements: New Zealand Versus Australia’, paper presented at a Workshop held at the Centre of Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific, University of Wollongong, (in collaboration with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) and the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich (MPI)), November 2008
Paul Jensen , “Patent Quality and Misclassification”, European Policy for Intellectual Property Association, Berne, 3-4 October 2008
Wenyue Zhuang, Kwanghui Lim and Poh-kam Wong, Knowledge Search and its Effects on the International Diffusion of Knowledge: Evidence from Information Storage Technology Patents, Academy of International Business Conference, June 2008