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Monopolies and IP round up
IPKat reviews 2 new texts on the “interface” between aspects of IP and anti-trust or competition and an economics “reader”: (1) Nuno Pires de Carvalho, TRIPS Regime of Antitrust and Undisclosed...
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University of WA v Gray (No. 24)
What do you do if you have an appeal on foot, but the other side starts selling off the subject matter of the dispute? Now that French J has gone on to loftier planes, Siopis J has inherited this...
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the value of copyright: determining shadow prices
Ass. Prof. David Brennan and Dr Rhonda Smith will talk for IPRIA about how to determine a fair price for using IP where the IP owner can’t demonstrate any real harm. I think a situation like this is...
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IP Professionals Forum
IP Austraia is seeking applications from registered patent attorneys and/or trade mark attorneys for appointment to its IP Professionals Forum. According to the blurb, the IP Professionals Forum: The...
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IP mapping?
So I’m watching a clever YouTube which Josh Gans points out has been annoyingly marred by a running stream of “subscript” advertisements. On of the ads is for IP Mapping which seems like a clever...
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Landmarks in Australian IP
Dr Emmerson QC (who surely needs no introduction) is going to launch the new book edited by Andrew Kenyon, Megan Richardson and Sam Ricketson – all professors well known to you on 25 March 2009....
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Crown use
No, it’s not the long awaited response to the CLRC’s report; instead, IP Australia and the Attorney-General’s Department have published an information sheet about Crown Use of intellectual property (in...
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Bushfires and IP Australia
IP Australia has a policy if you have missed, or are about to miss, a deadline because of The Bushfires. (Un)Official Notice – at the time of writing (it may be fixed by the time you’re reading) the...
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Recent microblog (twitter) posts
Following in the footsteps of Marty Schwimmer and Dennis Kennedy, I shall try a weekly post aggregating selected IP “tweets”. If you’re keen on greater currency, my tweets also show up as they’re made...
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The Fortnightly Review (of IP and Media Law)
Professors Megan Richardson and Andrew Kenyon and Vicki Huang edit a new online publication “The Fortnightly Review of IP and Media Law”. So far, it is up to issue #7 and features, amongst other...
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Arbitrating IP disputes in Australia
Last year, IPwars reported on Hammerschlag J’s ruling that arbitrators under the Commercial Arbitration Acts 1984 (here and here (repealed and replaced by a 2010 Act)e.g.) can settle disputes about (1)...
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Australian blawgs
Separovic Injury Lawyers in Perth have compiled an interesring list of Australian legal blogs. Law Geek DownUnder provides useful summaries about the issues in upcoming High Court cases and, when...
View ArticleRe-thinking the role of IP: Francis Gurry lecture
Last week, the 5th Francis Gurry Lecture at the University of Melbourne was given by Dr Francis Gurry, the Director-General of WIPO (and so the highest ranking Australian official in UN organisations),...
View ArticleSecurities over IP
Transition period to register security interest claims over IP expires on 31 January 2014
View ArticleProductivity Commission reviews IP
The Productivity Commission has released an issues paper for its inquiry into Intellectual Property Arrangements. What it was asked to do In his reference the then Treasurer directed the Productivity...
View Article100 blogs about IP
Not quite 100 flowers, but Feedspot has posted a listing of 100 IP blogs from around the world. Some of them, I subscribe to myself. You may find some interesting too!
View ArticleFeedspot’s Top 25 Australian Law blogs
Honoured to be included in Feedspot’s Top 25 Australian law blogs and websites for Australian lawyers. No 1 is Melbourne Uni’s Opinions on High which is a “must read” for following developments in the...
View ArticleDr Francis Gurry
You may have already received notification about this but, just in case, this year’s Francis Gurry lecture will involve a “conversation” with Dr Gurry himself. Following his recent retirement as...
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