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A critical introduction to Australian intellectual property law.An understanding of intellectual property (IP) laws is central to the sciences, manufacturing, the arts and the digital economy, and is increasingly important to mainstream legal practice. IP laws impact our daily lives and affect the way we access or engage with technology, medicine, nature, education and entertainment. IP has also become a more controversial and politicised area of study over recent years, especially in light of the fast-paced development of the information economy.This book introduces students to key cases and concepts in Australian IP law, drawing attention to approaches taken in other jurisdictions, especially the UK, the EU and the US. It aims to equip students with the necessary legal knowledge for either entry-level legal practice or progress into more specialised postgraduate studies.IP law is made up of several distinctive categories, with each area having its own history, rationales and technicalities. This text covers each of these categories separately, allowing students to grasp the nature and scope of the legislation, case law and administrative practice applicable in each area.New to this EditionA wholly revised introductory chapter on the philosophy and history of copyright (Chapter 2).New cases to reflect the significant changes in IP law since the last edition, including:D’Arcy v Myriad Genetics Inc (2015)AstraZeneca AB v Apotex Pty Ltd (2015)Commissioner of Patents v RPL Central Pty Ltd (2015)JR Consulting & Drafting Pty Ltd v Cummings (2016)Veda Advantage Ltd v Malouf Group Enterprises Pty Ltd (2016)Pham Global Pty Ltd v Insight Clinical Imaging Pty Ltd (2017)Pokémon Co International Inc v Redbubble Ltd (2017)Rodney Jane Racing Pty Ltd v Monster Energy Co (2018)Kogan v Martin (2019)Boomerang Investments Pty Ltd v Padgett (Liability) (2020)Urban Alley Brewery Pty Ltd v La Sirène Pty Ltd (2020)Merck Sharp and Dohme Corporation v Wyeth LLC (No 3) (2020).Incorporates significant legislative changes to the Copyright Act introduced by the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Act 2015, Copyright Amendment (Disability Access and Other Measures) Act 2017 and Copyright Amendment (Service Providers) Act 2018.Discusses key policy proposals in the Advisory Council for Intellectual Property’s Review of the Designs System (2015), the Productivity Commission’s Intellectual Property Arrangements inquiry (2016), and the Australian government’s Copyright Modernisation Consultation (2018), which have resulted or will result in key reforms to copyright, designs, patents and trade marks legislation.

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Dr Kathy Bowrey is a Professor in the Faculty of Law, UNSW, Sydney. She is a legal historian and socio-legal researcher whose research explores laws and practices that inform knowledge creation and the production, distribution and reception of technology and culture. Her primary expertise relates to intellectual property, information technology regulation, regulatory theory, media practice, business history, feminist scholarship and a concern for Indigenous rights. She has a strong interest in higher education research policy and research management. She has acted as a Consultant to the Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD) concerning research assessment exercises in law. She is a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts (2018-2020). Professor Bowrey is a foundation member of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property established in 2008 and she became the Co-Director in 2019. Michael Handler is a Professor in the Faculty of Law. He researches in the field of intellectual property law, focusing in particular on national and international trade mark law, the international regulation of geographical indications of origin, and copyright law. Michael is the co-author, with Professor Robert Burrell, of Australian Trade Mark Law (2nd ed, Oxford University Press, 2016), one of the leading texts on the topic. He is also the co-author, with Professors Kathy Bowrey, Dianne Nicol and Kimberlee Weatherall, of Australian Intellectual Property: Commentary, Law and Practice (2nd ed, Oxford University Press, 2015). He has written numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on various aspects of local and international intellectual property law, in publications including the Modern Law Review, Melbourne University Law Review, Federal Law Review and the Trademark Reporter. He also co-authored influential submissions to government law reform inquiries. Kimberlee Weatherall is a Professor of Law at the University of Sydney, and a Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre for Automated Decision-Making and Society. She specialises in issues at the intersection of law and technology, as well as intellectual property law. Her current research focuses on the law relating to the collection, ownership, use and governance of data about and related to people, including privacy law, with the goal of ensuring that data collection, use and linkage, and data and predictive analytics are developed in ways that are beneficial to people and society. She is a Fellow at the Gradient Institute, and a research affiliate of the Humanising Machine Intelligence group at the Australian National University. Kimberlee also holds funding from the Minderoo Foundation to investigate Private Law and AI, and is an associate with UWA's Minderoo Law and Tech Policy Lab. Dianne Nicol is a Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law and Director of the Centre for Law and Genetics. Professor Nicol was Chair of Academic Senate at the University of Tasmania between 2013 and 2019, and took on the role of acting Provost between November 2017 and June 2018. She was admitted as a barrister and solicitor to the Supreme Court of Tasmania and the High Court of Australia in 1998 and spent some time in legal practice. Her research history includes both law and science. Her current research focuses primarily on the regulation of personalized medicine, biobanking, genome editing and other emerging technologies, together with commercialisation of biotechnology and patenting of biotechnological inventions. Professor Nicol is currently the lead chief investigator on two Australian Research Council funded projects: Genomic Data Sharing: Issues in Law, Research Ethics and Society; and Reforming the Regulatory Environment for Innovative Health Technologies. Associate Professor Jane Nielsen is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law. She is a member of the Centre for Law and Genetics and her area of expertise is in the area of intellectual property law, particularly as it relates to biomedical research. She has a number of publications examining the intersection between intellectual property law and competition law. She has also recently become involved in researching the legal implications of 3D printing, specifically those relating to intellectual property and consumer law.

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