Research Associates
Associate Professor David Brennan
Associate Professor David Brennan is currently writing an article on the theory of invalidity applied to speculative claims in European biotechnology patent cases and a book chapter on collective copyright administration in Australia. David's primary fields of research and teaching are patent and copyright law, with a particular focus upon their interface with other private law regimes such as contract, property and restitution. He undertakes his research within economic and historical frameworks. David provides copyright consultancy services to peak bodies in the Australian copyright industry. In this capacity he has participated extensively in copyright law reform and in royalty-setting determinations. He is a member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Law Council of Australia, is the editor of the Australian Intellectual Property Journal, and teaches patent law at the University of Oxford.
Professor Andrew Christie
Professor Andrew Christie was appointed as the first Davies Collison Cave Professor of Intellectual Property in 2002. From March 2002 to June 2008 he was the founding Director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA), a national centre for multi-disciplinary research on the law, economics and management of intellectual property. IPRIA is based at the University of Melbourne, and is a joint enterprise of the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, and the Melbourne Business School. Professor Christie is admitted to legal practice in Australia and the United Kingdom, and worked for many years in the intellectual property departments of law firms in Melbourne and London. He has particular expertise in the application of copyright, patent and trade mark law to the digital environment, and in patent protection for biotechnological innovations. He is a former member of the Copyright Law Review Committee appointed by the federal Attorney-General, and is a current member of the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property appointed by the federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources.
Professor Iain M. Cockburn
Professor Iain M. Cockburn is Professor of Finance and Economics and Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar in the School of Management at Boston University, where he teaches and performs research in the areas of business strategy, intellectual property, economics of innovation, and management of high technology companies. Professor Cockburn graduated from the University of London in 1984, and completed his PhD in economics at Harvard University in 1990. Prior to coming to BU, he was the Van Dusen Professor of Business Administration in the Faculty of Commerce the University of British Columbia. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a former Associate Editor of Management Science and Coeditor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy.
Dr Catherine de Fontenay
Dr Catherine de Fontenay is an academic economist who has researched and taught in institutions across Australia.
Prior to joining MBS, Catherine held positions at the University of New South Wales and the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at ANU. Her teaching and program directing expertise is extensive, and her subjects include economic development, managerial economics, game theory and business strategy, markets in developing countries, and industrial organisation. Catherine's work has been published in a range of international journals. Her research interests include development economics, industrial organisation, theory of contracts and organisations, and comparative institutional analysis. Her most recent project examined spiralling crime rates in developing countries, and assessed the resultant costs to business.
Dr Nisvan Erkal
Dr Nisvan Erkal, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne. She joined the department after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2002. Her main research areas include innovators’ strategic patenting and disclosure incentives, and the anti-competitive consequences of technology transfer agreements.
Professor Joshua Gans
Professor Joshua Gans is one of Australia's top industrial economists and a world leader in research on innovation, licensing and the organisation of innovative activity. He is currently a Professor of Management (Information Economics) at the Melbourne Business School. He has worked extensively on IP issues in both Australia and the US, including the role of technology and IP protection in economic growth, IP issues associated with academic publishing, and choices associated with the commercialisation of ideas.
Professor Christine Greenhalgh
Professor Christine Greenhalgh is a Professor of Applied Economics at the Department of Economics. She is also the Economics Research Director at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, and a Fellow and Tutor at St Peter's College. Professor Greenhalgh has undertaken empirical research directed towards a range of questions of public policy interest, relating to employment and unemployment, wage discrimination, external trade performance, and the changing balance between manufacturing and services. She has recently focused her research interests on the impact of new technology. Professor Greenhalgh has at various times been an academic advisor to the Treasury, the Department for Education and Employment, the Department of Trade and Industry, and the UK Intellectual Property Office.
Associate Professor David Hsu
Associate Professor David Hsu is the Edward B. and Shirley R. Shils Term Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Stanford University with undergraduate majors in economics and political science. After a few years working in industry, he received his master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University, followed by his Ph.D. in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hsu’s research interests are in entrepreneurial innovation and management. Within that domain, he has investigated topics such as intellectual property management, start-up innovation, technology commercialization strategy, and venture capital. His research has appeared in leading journals such as Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Finance, Management Science, RAND Journal of Economics, and Research Policy
Professor Andrew Kenyon
Professor Andrew Kenyon is the Director of the Centre for Media and Communications Law at the Melbourne Law School, where he teaches the graduate subjects 'Defamation Law' and 'Regulation in the Digital Age', and the undergraduate subjects, 'Evidence' and 'Media Law'. Ass. Professor Kenyon is an expert in media law and researches in comparative defamation law, free speech and electronic media regulation, as well as copyright law. He is currently a Director of the Arts Law Centre of Australia and editor of the Media & Arts Law Review.
Dr Owen Morgan
Dr Owen Morgan is a leading New Zealand IP academic who teaches in The University of Auckland of Auckland Business School where he is also a Research Associate of the Mira Szaszy Research Centre for Maori and Pacific Economic Development. In recent years, Dr Morgan has concentrated on policy issues and he has made numerous submissions to Select Committees and in response to policy documents particularly on copyright and related rights. His current research interests include intellectual property issues as they relate to indigenous peoples; interdisciplinary research on innovation; and interdisciplinary research on call centres particularly relating to privacy and the protection of confidential information.
Dr Don O'Sullivan
Dr Don O'Sullivan joined the faculty at Melbourne Business School in 2008 from University College Cork, Ireland. Don's principal academic interest is in the impact of marketing activities on company performance. His research has been published in the European Journal of Marketing, and the Journal of Marketing among others, and his case studies on technology marketing are taught in business schools across Europe. Don is an active member of the Chief Marketing Officers (CMO) Council of the USA. Since 2003 he has led the Council's Marketing Performance Measurement (MPM) research program, and is a co-author of the Council's Report on this topic
Professor Sam Ricketson
Professor Sam Ricketson, is a world authority on intellectual property law. He is author of The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works: 1886 - 1986, A work that established him categorically on the international stage. He has held various academic appointments at the University of Melbourne from 1975 - 1991 and was appointed Sir Keith Aickin Professor of Commercial Law at Monash University in 1991. He practises part time at the Victorian Bar.
Dr Mark Rogers
Dr Mark Rogers is a Senior Research Associate of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre and a Senior Fellow of the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economics and Social Research, the University of Melbourne.
Professor Danny Samson
Professor Danny Samson is a Professor of Management in the Department of Management and Marketing, and Associate Dean (Development), of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, the University of Melbourne.
Dr Rhonda Smith
Dr Rhonda Smith is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics. In addition she provides consulting services mainly in relation to trade practices issues.
Assistant Professor Deepak Somaya
Assistant Professor Deepak Somaya is an Assistant Professor in the College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests span high technology strategy, intellectual property strategy, enterpreunership, and the economics of innovation. In his recent and ongoing work, Somaya has studied the drivers and impact of strategies to acquire and enforce intellectual property in various industries and contexts. He has also researched international patent protection, and the linkages between innovation and intellectual property in complex multi-invention-product industries. Somaya's primary teaching interests are in managerial economics, international business and technology strategy.
Associate Professor Scott Stern
Associate Professor Scott Stern is an Associate Professor in the Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University, USA.
Ms Kimberlee Weatherall
Kimberlee Weatherall is a Senior Lecturer in the TC Beirne School of Law at The University of Queensland and an Adjunct Research Fellow with the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture. Prior to joining the Faculty in 2007, Kimberlee was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne and Associate Director (Law) of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia. She has also lectured at the University of Sydney, and worked as a solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Sydney. She holds a Masters of Law from Yale University and a Bachelor of Civil Law from Oxford University. Kimberlee teaches and researches in intellectual property law, with a particular interest in digital copyright, the relationship between international trade and intellectual property, and the systems for administration and enforcement of intellectual property rights.She has been a member of the Law Council of Australia IP Subcommittee since 2006.
Ms Robin Wright
Robin Wright is a Research Fellow working for CMCL and IPRIA on the ARC funded research project Cultural Collections, Creators and Copyright: Museums, Galleries, Libraries and Archives and Australia's Digital Heritage. Robin's research interests include Australian and international copyright law and its intersection with the media and cultural industries, education and digital technologies. Her background includes practising as a corporate solicitor in Australia as well as project management and empirical and policy research in the film industry, on digital technology projects and in the arts in both Australia and the UK.
Associate Professor Anne Wyatt
Professor Anne Wyatt, The University of Queensland, has a First Class Honours degree, a University Medal, and is a Doctor of Philosophy. Her PhD is on the Chancellor's list of highest quality dissertations at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is an Academic Board member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Australia (ICAA) and is the Chair of the ICAA Financial Accounting Module Committee.
Dr Jongsay Yong
Dr Jongsay Yong is a Senior Research Fellow in the Applied Microeconomic Section of the Melbourne Institute. He joined the Melbourne Institute in 2002, after spending eight years as lecturer and later senior lecturer at the National University of Singapore. His research interests centre on theoretical and empirical issues in industrial economics and health economics. He is experienced in building and analysing theoretical models for empirical and policy analysis. In recent years he has expanded his research into data-intensive work with a particular focus on health economics and firm productivity. His current work includes a project on measuring hospital performance and quality, and another on investigating productivity of new firms and existing firms using firm-level data. Both projects are funded by the Australian Research Council under the Linkage Grant scheme.