One of the great unknowns of patent policy is how much infringement goes on, and how much of that infringement leads to enforcement of an informal or formal kind. Our representative survey of over 3700 Australian inventors estimates that 28 per cent of inventions (which were the subject of a...

The Australia-US Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) required extensive changes to Australian copyright law. This paper assesses the impact of these changes one decade on. It considers, first, whether the costs and/or benefits predicted in 2004 have eventuated, finding clear evidence that AUSFTA has...

This paper is part of an international collaborative project led by Rebecca Giblin & Kimberlee Weatherall. The premise of the project is this: what if we could start with a blank slate, and write ourselves a brand new copyright system? If we could design a law, from scratch, to encourage...

This paper provides an overview of the history of intellectual property laws in Australia and New Zealand, and directions into existing and emerging scholarship in this area. It discusses the swings and roundabouts of convergence and divergence in copyright, patent and trade mark legislation and...

This Submission by nine intellectual property academics responds to the Draft Report in the Inquiry into IP Arrangements published by the Australian Productivity Commission on 29 April 2016 ('Draft Report').In broad terms, the submission supports many of the goals of, and recommendations of, the...

This submission to the Australia Productivity Commission responds to a recently published PricewaterhouseCoopers report on Understanding the Costs and Benefits of Introducing a ‘Fair Use' Exception, prepared for APRA, AMCOS, PPCA, Copyright Agency | Viscopy, Foxtel, News Corp Australia and...

This paper is concerned with international developments in intellectual property enforcement and, in particular, with increasingly specific provisions found in international instruments relating to civil procedure in IP. Apart from highlighting the need for academic attention to the trend, the...

This forthcoming chapter looks at what research into the operation of the IP system, and particularly IP enforcement, tells us about the issues facing research-based firms, focusing on the ‘science' side of IP, particularly patents, and using research, and information about domestic...