Fields of Research

Intellectual property law
Law, science and technology
Public law
Property law (excl. intellectual property law)

Research Objectives

Justice and the law
Legislation, civil and criminal codes
Law reform
Other law, politics and community services
Expanding knowledge in law and legal studies

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

Mayo’s impact on patent applications related to biotechnology, diagnostics and personalized medicine; Nature Biotechnology
A role for virtual biotechnology companies in drug discovery and development?; Journal of Commercial Biotechnology
An empirical study of large, human biobanks: intellectual property policies and financial conditions for access; Journal of Law and the Biosciences
Another missed opportunity to reform compulsory licensing and Crown use in Australia; Australian Intellectual Property Journal
Are the gene-patent storm clouds dissipating? A global snapshot; Nature Biotechnology
Australia; Balancing Copyright - A Survey of National Approaches
Compulsory Licensing of Patents
Continental drift? Do European clinical genetic testing laboratories have a patent problem?; European Journal of Human Genetics
Divided performance of patented methods in Australia: a call to codify procured infringement; University of New South Wales Law Journal
Do patents impede the provision of genetic tests in Australia?; Australian Health Review
Do patents promote innovation?
Exposure Draft Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Bill 2011
Exposure Draft Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill 2014
Has the EU incentive for drug repositioning been effective? An empirical analysis of the “+1” regulatory exclusivity; IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law
How does emerging patent case law in the US and Europe affect precision medicine?; Nature Biotechnology
Inquiry into Patent Amendment (Human Genes and Biological Materials) Bill 2010
International divergence in gene patenting; Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics
Legislating to exclude gene patents: difficult and unhelpful, or useful and feasible?; Journal of Law and Information Science
One year after Vanda, are diagnostics patents transforming into methods of treatment to overcome Mayo-based rejections?; Nature Biotechnology
Provenance and risk in transfer of biological materials; PLOS Biology
Re-evaluating False Patent Marking in Australia; Journal of Law, Information and Science
Re-evaluating innocent infringement in Australia: Patent numbers and virtual marking; Australian Intellectual Property Journal
Reply to C.D. Richter; European Journal of Human Genetics
response to the IP Australia Patentable Subject Matter Consultation Paper on an Objects Clause and Exclusion from Patentability
Sharing the Burden in Australian Drug Discovery and Development: Collaborative Trends in Translational Research; Intellectual Property Quarterly
Standing on the edge - what type of 'exclusive licensees' should be able to initiate patent infringement actions?; International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law
The effects of Myriad and Mayo on molecular test development in the US and Europe: interviews from the Frontline; Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
The Innovation Pool in Biotechnology: The Role of Patents in Facilitating Innovation
The multiple dimensions of intellectual property infringement in the 3D printing era; Australian Intellectual Property Journal
Time to get serious about privacy policies: The special case of genetic privacy; Federal Law Review
Top US court blocks patents on breast cancer genes
Was the Myriad decision a 'surgical strike' on isolated DNA patents, or does it have wider impacts?; Nature Biotechnology

Research Projects

Research Candidate Supervision