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Innovation and Information Law

Co-ordinator: Associate Professor Moira Paterson

In this era of innovation and technology, in which the internet is one of the most widely used information and communication channels in the world, this special area of law is expanding at a rapid rate to accommodate these and other advances.  Over the last ten years, Monash Law School has considrably expanded its expertise in this area.  Members of the innovation and information cluster have extensive knowledge ranging from traditional aspects of intellectual property and media law to cutting edge global legal issues arising from the inter-relationship of law and new and emerging technologies.  They include copyright, trademarks, patents and other aspects of intellectual property, media law, privacy, e-law, cyberlaw, biotechnology, communications regulation and other aspects of information regulation and biotechnology.

This cluster incorporates:

  • Access to information and protection of information (privacy, media, freedom of information)
  • Balance of public and private domains
  • Broadcasting law, contempt of court
  • Copyright and designs
  • Creation of information and innovation
  • Defamation
  • Electronic health records
  • Exploitation of information and dissemination of information
  • Information technology law
  • Intellectual property
  • Internet law and internet governance issues
  • Media
  • Mediums of information (radio communication, telecommunication, internet, traditional forms)
  • Ownership of information (property rights)
  • Patents, trademarks, confidential information
  • Plant breeders rights
  • Regulation of new technologies
  • Research materials on the internet
  • University intellectual property rights (ownership and access)

Current and recent research projects:

  •  Copyright in Electronic Program Guides (EPGs), the regulation of Personal Video Recorders (PVRs) and the future of FTA broadcasting
  • Copyright protection of encoded broadcasts
  • Definitions of 'personal information/personal data' in information privacy/data protection laws: when is an IP address personal information?
  • Developing a framework for balancing law enforcement and privacy in the regulation of Australian mobile platforms via international comparative benchmarking
  • Divergent approaches in defining the appropriate level of inventiveness in patent law
  • Domain name dispute resolution: 'sucks'-type domain names and cybergripe sites
  • Intellectual property law, Less-developed countries and public health: a critique of trade liberalisation
  • Open source software in collaborative projects
  • Ownership and exploration of intellectual property in universities: a comparative study
  • Recent develoments in copyright protection of software
  • Regulating the mobile content revolution: a preliminary investigation of content control and copyright management in the advanced mobile environment
  • Surveillance in public places
  • The code/law collision: secondary liability for P2P copyright infringement
  • The experimental use exemption to patent infringement
  • The problems of drafting 'technology neutral' laws