Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia

Mark Davison is Professor in the Faculty of Law at Monash University where he has taught and researched trademark law for many years. He holds a Bachelor of Laws, a Masters of Law and a PhD in law. He is a co-author of the third and fourth editions of Shanahan’s Australian Law of Trade Marks and Passing off, the leading Australian reference work on trademark law which is widely cited by Australian courts and IP Australia in decisions relating to trademarks. He is also the author of the trademark chapters of a book entitled Australian Intellectual Property Law published by Cambridge University Press.  Mark is a member of the intellectual property committee of the Law Council of Australia, the trade marks sub-committee of that committee and special counsel with Knightsbridge Lawyers. He is a winner of an Australian Research Council grant investigating the interpretation of the TRIPS agreement and has written the chapters dealing with the trademark provisions of the TRIPS agreement for the forthcoming book entitled ‘Commentary on the TRIPS agreement’ to be published by Edward Elgar.

Stephen King is Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Prior to joining Monash University, Stephen was a Member of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and also a Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne and a Professor of Management (Economics) at the Melbourne Business School. Stephen’s main areas of expertise are in Trade Practices economics, regulation and industrial organization. His research in industrial economics has been published widely, including articles in major international economics journals such as the Journal of Political Economy and the Journal of Industrial Economics. He was a member of the Victorian Infrastructure Planning Council between 2000 and 2002 and a member of the Executive Committee of the Prime Minister’s Home Ownership Task Force in 2002-2003. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Stephen is a Director and founder of CoRE Research.

Kwanghui Lim is a Senior Lecturer at the Melbourne Business School and Associate Director at IPRIA. Kwanghui’s research explores the strategies used by firms to manage intellectual property and the commercialisation process. Prior to joining the Melbourne Business School, Kwanghui was an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore. He has conducted workshops for WIPO, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore and the Academy of Management. Kwanghui’s industry experience includes consulting experience at Booz Allen & Hamilton.

Sam Ricketson holds degrees from the Universities of Melbourne and London, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia. Sam has written, taught and advised widely in all areas of intellectual property law (copyright and designs, patents, trade marks and unfair competition, and breach of confidence), conflicts of law, trade practices and corporate law. He has also held various professional as well as governmental appointments in the intellectual property area, including membership of the Commonwealth Copyright Tribunal. He is currently a panel member of the World Intellectual Property Organisation's dispute resolution body in relation to domain names and is a member of the Victorian Law Reform Commission. He also practises part-time at the Victorian Bar.