The role of intellectual property rights in technology transfer to developing countries and least developed countries to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a major theme of a new international collection of writing on intellectual property rights and the SDGs. Professor Matthew Rimmer is one of…
Intellectual Property and Public Health symposium
The Australian Centre for Health Law Research is hosting a one-day, in-person, symposium on intellectual property and public health on Friday, 8th December 2023. This event is intended to explore the multi-dimensional topic of intellectual property and public health in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. It will…
The TRIPS Waiver: Intellectual Property, Access to Essential Medicines, and the Coronavirus COVID-19
The TRIPS Waiver: Intellectual Property, Access to Essential Medicines, and the Coronavirus COVID-19 Research Symposium, hosted by the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) and co-ordinated by Professor Matthew Rimmer, was held on the 10 December 2021. The symposium was part of ACHLR’s research activity in respect…
Remaking the Maker Movement
The Remaking the Maker Movement event was convened by Professor Matthew Rimmer and hosted by the QUT Faculty of Business and Law earlier this month. This event focused on the role of innovation spaces – such as makerspaces, Fab Labs, hackerspaces, TechShop, and innovation hubs, incubators, and accelerators.…
EVENT: Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development
Join some of the leading thinkers in their fields for a one-day symposium on 6 September 2018, on the relationship between intellectual property and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. As well as special guest Associate Professor Sara Bannerman, the Canada Research Chair in Communication Policy and Governance…
IPIL Symposium: The Economics of Creativity
The Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Program (IPIL), the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) and the QUT Faculty of Law recently hosted the ‘The Economics of Creativity’ Symposium to discuss the legislation pertaining to the digital market. Professor Ruth Towse, Professor in Economics of Creative Industries at Bournemouth University (UK), Dr Kevin Sanson, Senior Lecturer…