Landmarks in Australian Intellectual Property Law

This book shows the development of Australian IP law into a distinctly Australian body.

Andrew T. Kenyon (Edited by), Megan Richardson (Edited by), Sam Ricketson (Edited by)

9780521516860, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 12 January 2009

298 pages
23.5 x 16 x 2.5 cm, 0.59 kg

'… the editors Andrew T. Kenyon, Megan Richardson and Sam Ricketson … have produced a book which is both engaging and erudite. Its contributors are drawn from academia, practice and the bench and the result is a book which will stimulate, entertain and inform students, researchers, teachers and practising members of the legal profession in Australia with an interest in all areas of intellectual property law.' The Cambridge Law Journal

This book provides a picture of how Australian intellectual property law has developed as a distinctly Australian body of law during the century since the country was established. The book takes a selection of key intellectual property law cases and tells their stories, situating each case in its historical, cultural, social or economic context, as well as providing factual details about, for example, the arguments made in each case and the evidence adduced. In part, the book offers a deeper legal analysis of the selected cases, many of which have been central to the framing of Australian intellectual property law. The book also provides a fuller sense of each case as revealing and influencing wider understandings and practices. Landmarks in Australian Intellectual Property Law is a valuable resource for teachers, researchers, practitioners and judges in Australia and throughout the common law world.

List of contributors
Table of cases
Table of statutes
Introduction
1. Potter v Broken Hill: misuse of precedent in cross-border IP litigation Richard Garnett
2. The Union Label case: an early Australian IP story Sam Ricketson
3. RPM for RPM: National Phonograph Company of Australia v Menck Peter Heerey and Nicole Malone
4. Horses and the law: the enduring legacy of Victoria Park Racing Jill McKeough
5. We have never been modern: the High Court's decision in National Research Development Corporation v Commissioner of Patents Stephen Hubicki and Brad Sherman
6. Of vice-chancellors and authors: UNSW v Moorhouse Sam Ricketson and David Catterns
7. Foster v Mountford: cultural confidentiality in a changing Australia Christoph Antons
8. Cadbury Schweppes v Pub Squash: what is all the fizz about? Mark Davison
9. The Firmagroup case: trigger for designs law reform Janice Luck
10. Larger than life in the Australian cinema: Pacific Dunlop v Hogan Megan Richardson
11. O Fortuna! On the vagaries of litigation and the story of musical debasement in Australia Elizabeth Adeney
12. The protection of At the Waterhole by John Bulun Bulun: Aboriginal art and the recognition of private and communal rights Colin Golvan
13. The grapes of wrath: geographical indications, international trade and the Coonawarra case Matthew Rimmer
14. Waiting for the 'Billy'® to boil: the Waltzing Matilda case Leanne Wiseman and Matthew Hall
15. The Panel case Melissa de Zwart.

Subject Areas: Intellectual property law [LNR], Laws of Specific jurisdictions [LN]