Professor Mark Davison

Convenor, Higher Degrees by Research (1/7/2010-31/12/2011)
LLB(Hons), Diploma of Legal Practice, LLM, Diploma of Languages (Indonesian), PhD,

Professional Profile

Mark Davison is the author of several major works relating to intellectual property and competition law and is a special counsel with Knightsbridge Lawyers. He has written The Legal Protection of Databases, a book published in the intellectual property series of Cambridge University Press and is the co-author of the third  and fourth editions of Shanahan’s Australian Law of Trade Mark and Passing Off, the leading reference work on Australian trade mark law, and Australian Intellectual Property Law, published by Cambridge University Press. He has also published two casebooks dealing with competition law and aspects of consumer protection and is co-author of the 4th edition of Intellectual Property: Cases, Materials and Commentary published by Lexis Nexis. In addition to his doctorate on sui generis protection of databases, he has a diploma in Indonesian language and studies and he is the winner of four Australian Research Council grants.  Since 2006 he has been a member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Law Council of Australia.

Besides teaching in the postgraduate and undergraduate courses at Monash, he has taught in various projects in Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia.

A selection of Professor Davison's publications is available at:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=481855

Areas of Expertise

Intellectual Property
Trade Practices
Contract

Teaching Commitments

Trade marks and commercial designations (LAW7075)
International and Comparative Trademark Law Prato (Sem1/T2) (2011) (LAW4535)
Principles of contract B (Sum/T1) 2011 (2 streams) (LAW7429)