Efficiency the IP System
Current research projects
Quality of Patent Examination
Examination of Australian Business Accounting Practices on Intangible Capital Expenses
IPRIA working papers
Elizabeth Webster and Paul Jensen, Do Patents Matter for Commercialization?, IPRIA Working Paper No 03/2009
Joshua Gans and Richard Hayes, Assessing Australia’s Innovative Capacity – 2006 Update (December 2006)
Refereed publications
Gans, J, Hsu, D and Stern, S, (2007) “The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence from Patent Grant Delays”, Management Science, NBER Working Paper 13234
Jensen, P, Palangkaraya, A. and Webster, E., (2008)‘Application Pendency Times and Outcomes across Four Patent Offices’, Australian Intellectual Property Journal.
Lim, A. and Christie A., (2007) ‘A Comparative Analysis of the Australian Patent Office’s Examination of Biotechnology Reach-Through Patent Claims’, 33(1) Monash University Law Review 115-142
Palangkaraya, A., Jensen, P. and Webster, E., (2008) ‘Applicant Behaviour in Patent Examination Request Lags’, Economics Letters.
Webster, E., Palangkaraya, A. and Jensen, P.,(2007) ‘Characteristics of International Patent Application Outcomes’ (2007) Economics Letters, 95(3), 362-368.
IPRIA events
Ambush Marketing, Dr Owen Morgan, Univeristy of Auckland, 22 June ( Sydney), 23 June ( Brisbane), 25 June ( Melbourne), 2009.
Business Models and Patent Strategies for “Multi Invention” Contexts, Dr Deepak Somaya, Robert H Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, 22 March 2007
Commercialising Inventions – What’s the Story? IPRIA/AIC Conference, 17 February (Brisbane), 19 February (Melbourne), Professors Bronwyn Hall (UC Berkeley), Alfonso Gambardella (Universita Commerciale "Luigi Bocconi", Milan, Italy), Mark Rogers (Oxford), Assoc Professor Beth Webster (IPRIA), Drs Rowan Gilmore (Australian Institute for Commercialisation), Paul Jensen (IPRIA), Peter Jonson, Charlie Day (University of Melbourne), Malcolm McBratney (McCullock Robertson),Nigel Poole (CSIRO), Karl Rodrigues (CSIRO), Greg Smith (SciVentures).
Does Australia have an Innovation Problem? Book Launch and Panel Discussion, Senator the Hon. Kim Carr. Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Resources, July 2008 (in association with the Melbourne Business School)
IP Professionals and Ethics, Dr Linda Haller, Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School, Dr Trevor Davies, Partner, Allens Arthur Robinson, 9 March (Brisbane), 18 March (Melbourne), 19 March (Sydney)
Manner of Manufacture, Associate Professor David Brennan, Melbourne Law School, 10 November ( Sydney), 11 November ( Brisbane), 14 November ( Melbourne)
Should Genes be Patented? Public Forum and Panel Discussion, Dr Gillian Mitchell, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre; Professor Gregory Mandel, Temple University Law School; Professor Dianne Nicol, University of Tasmania Law School; Professor Dan Peled, Haifa University, Israel, 24 April 2009 (Melbourne)
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 & Kwanghui Lim (2009) Inquiry into Gene Patenting
Submission made to the Senate Community Affairs Committee (jointly with CITE).
Elizabeth Webster & Chris Dent (2008) Review of Patentable Subject Matter, Submission made to Advisory Council on Intellectual Property.
Elizabeth Webster, Chris Dent & Paul Jensen (2009) Exemptions to Patent Infringement
Submission made to IP Australia's Review of the Patent System.
Elizabeth Webster, Chris Dent & Paul Jensen (2009) Getting the Balance Right Submission made to IP Australia's Review of the Patent System.
Joshua Gans, Supplementary Submission to Productive Commission Study on Public Support for Science & Innovation, Nov 2006
Paul Jensen , Alfons Palangkaraya, Elizabeth Webster and Jongsay Yong ‘The Effect of Raising the Australian Statutory Inventive Step on the Australian Global Production System’ IPRIA Occasional Paper 01/08, 2008.
Media
Elizabeth Webster, ‘Overhaul of the Patent System is Pending’ by Nicola Berkovic, The Australian, 12 September 2008
Joshua Gans, ‘Opportunity Lost’, Business Review Weekly, 1 February 2007, p49.
External presentations
Alfons Palangkaraya , 'Patent Examination Decisions and Strategic Trade Behavior’, All China Economics International Conference, Hong Kong,20, December 2006
Alfons Palangkaraya : 'Disharmony in International Patent Office Decisions', Faculty of Economics, Gakushuin University, Tokyo, January 2007
Andrew Christie, ‘Key Challenges Facing the IP Profession in the Asia-Pacific Region’, Trading Ideas – The Future of IP in the Asia Pacific APEC Symposium, February 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
Chris Dent , Non-Overlapping Rights: A Patent misconception, European Policy for Intellectual Property Conference, Lund, Sweden, September 2007
Kwanghui Lim - Panelist, Session on “Knowledge Diffusion”, Innovation 2008 Conference, Australian Business Higher-Education Roundtable , September 2008
Paul Jensen , “Patent Quality and Misclassification”, European Policy for Intellectual Property Association, Berne, October 2008
Paul Jensen , Expert Panel Member, Roundtable on “Innovation Measurement”, National Innovation system Review, June 2008
Paul Jensen , Where to from Here? Innovation Indicator Workshop, Commonwealth State and Territory Advisory Council on Innovation (CSTACI) Canberra, July 2007