Will Obama Fast-Track the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
This week there has been discussions between leaders from the Pacific Rim over the Trans-Pacific Partnership in Bali, Indonesia at APEC. President Barack Obama has demanding a ‘trade promotion...
View ArticleWill the Pacific Rim Become a Gasland? Dirty Fracking and the Trans-Pacific...
There has been much debate about the relationship between international trade, and intellectual property, the environment, biodiversity protection, and climate change. The Obama Administration has...
View ArticleFree Trade, Gangnam Style: The Korea-Australia Free Trade Agreement
On the 5th December 2013, Australia and Korea announced that they had finalised a new free trade agreement. Is it a fair trade fairytale? Or is it a dirty deal done dirt cheap? It is hard to tell,...
View ArticleTrick or Treaty? The Australian Debate Over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade...
[Working paper] The secretive 2011 Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement – known in short by the catchy acronym ACTA – is a controversial trade pact designed to provide for stronger enforcement of...
View ArticleIreland, Plain Packaging, and the Olive Revolution
A world leader in public health, Australia introduced plain packaging of tobacco products. Julia Gillard – the Prime Minister of Australia at the time responsible for plain packaging – has observed:...
View ArticleNew Zealand, Plain Packaging, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The New Zealand Parliament is considering the adoption of plain packaging of tobacco products with the introduction of the Smoke-Free Environments (Tobacco Plain Packaging) Amendment Bill 2014 (NZ)....
View ArticleSubmission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties on the Korea-Australia...
ABSTRACT: Australia and South Korea have signed a new free trade agreement – the Korea-Australia Free Trade Agreement (KAFTA). Is it a fair trade fairytale? Or is it a dirty deal done dirt cheap? Or...
View ArticleBlue Future: Maude Barlow, Water Rights, Investor Clauses, and Trade Deals
Maude Barlow is the chairperson of the Council of Canadians, and the founder of the Blue Planet Project. She is a recipient of Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award, and a Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship....
View ArticleNo Logo: Brand Bullies, Trade Mark Law, and The Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a sweeping trade agreement, spanning the Pacific Rim, and covering an array of topics, including intellectual property. There has been much analysis of the recently...
View ArticleSenator Elizabeth Warren fights the White House over the Secret Trans-Pacific...
In his visit to the G20 in Brisbane, President Barack Obama sought to promote his ambitious Pacific Rim trade agreement — the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He told an audience at the University of...
View ArticleThe Trans-Pacific Partnership: Copyright Law, the Creative Industries, and...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a highly secretive trade agreement being negotiated between the US and eleven Pacific Rim countries, including Australia. Having obtained a fast-track authority...
View ArticleThe Trans-Pacific Partnership Poses a Grave Threat to Sustainable Development
[Cross posted from The Conversation, Link (CC-BY-ND)] This month’s long-awaited release of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) text was the result of years of negotiations on trade ties between nations...
View ArticleThe High Price of Drug Patents: Australia, Patent Law, Pharmaceutical Drugs...
[Cross posted from Medium] Published by the Australian Government on the 20th March 2014, the independent “Pharmaceutical Patents Review Report” recommends to shorten and reduce patent term extensions,...
View ArticleThe Foxfire of Fair Use: The Google Books Litigation and the Future of...
Abstract: This article considers the dynamic evolution of copyright exceptions and limitations in the United States in light of new technological developments. There has been significant legal debate...
View ArticleThe Global Tobacco Epidemic, the Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products, and the...
Abstract: In response to complaints by Ukraine, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Indonesia, the Government of Australia has defended the introduction of plain packaging of tobacco products...
View ArticleThe Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products – a Special Issue of the QUT Law...
The QUT Law Review has officially published the final version of Volume 17 (2) – Special Issue on the Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products. This issue looks at important legal and regulatory issues...
View ArticleThe Chilling Effect: Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Graphic Health...
The Chilling Effect: Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Graphic Health Warnings, the Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Victoria University Law and Justice Journal...
View ArticleStomp out smoking with global plain packaging
Law-makers in South East Asia should follow Australia’s lead and stomp out ‘glamourous’ cigarette packaging, says a QUT law academic in the lead-up to World No Tobacco Day (May 31). In 2012 Australia...
View ArticleProsecco Wars: An Aperitif for new Australia-EU trade talks
“The prosecco issue is one of the many skirmishes we could see if the European community seeks to expand the protection of GI to include a wider range of wine regions, as well as food and foodstuffs...
View ArticleWhat next for mega trade deals? Australian Senate passes Pacific Trade Deal,...
QUT's leading legal expert on the Trans Pacific Partnership says the deal has profound impacts for Australia but warns settlement of cross-border disputes by an international tribunal remains...
View Article3D Printing Shakes Up Intellectual Property Rights
The emerging trend in 3D printing of products has resulted in a massive spike in patents being classified, according to QUT researchers. The QUT Faculty of Law Intellectual Property and Innovation...
View ArticleClimate litigation heats up globally
“Climate litigation has been on the rise in the United States, the European Union, and Australia versus both governments, and fossil fuel companies. The results, though, have been mixed,” Professor...
View ArticleClearCorrect: Intellectual Property, 3D Printing, and the Future of Trade
Abstract: Building upon our recent publication, 3D Printing and Beyond, this paper considers the relationship between intellectual property and trade in the context of 3D printing. This work contends...
View Article3D Printing, the Maker Movement, IP litigation and Legal Reform
October 2019 By Matthew Rimmer*, Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation Law at the Faculty of Law in the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia 3D printing is a field...
View ArticleRaising Climate Ambition: A Resolution for a Green New Deal
A number of Nobel Laureates in economics have been grappling with the problem of research, development, and transfer of clean technologies in order to tackle the climate crisis. Joseph Stiglitz has...
View ArticleTobacco Control in the Asia-Pacific
QUT IP and Innovation Law Research Program, 19 September 2019 QUT Faculty of Law Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Research Program Thursday, 19 September 2019 5:30pm to 7:30pm Z1064, Gibson...
View ArticleOpen Innovation: A QUT Research Symposium
Open Innovation: A QUT Research Symposium, Presented by QUT Faculty of Law Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Research Program. Thursday, 24 October 2019 ... This research symposium is dedicated...
View ArticleAustralia’s Stop Online Piracy Act: Copyright Law, Site-Blocking, and Search...
Australia’s Stop Online Piracy Act: Copyright Law, Site-Blocking, and Search Filters in an Age of Internet Censorship The Canberra Law Review (2019) Matthew Rimmer, Queensland University of Technology...
View ArticleQUT Forum on Access to Essential Medicines — 15 February 2017
This forum was hosted by the QUT Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Research Program and the Australian Centre for Health Law Research in the QUT Faculty of Law to coincide with the visit of the...
View ArticleRace Around the World for COVID-19 Vaccines
While the Trump administration trumpets Operation Warp Speed’s search for COVID-19 vaccine, it is unwilling to collaborate with the world’s scientists who share their COVID-19 findings and have pledged...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Challenges Copyright Law and Library Lending
Major publishing houses including HarperCollins and Penguin are suing the non-profit Internet Archive for its National Emergency Library, set up to provide access to books during the COVID-19 shutdown....
View ArticleIntellectual Property and Education in the Age of COVID-19
Research Symposium, QUT Faculty of Law, 29 July 2020 Overview This event will consider the relationship between intellectual property and higher education in the age of the public health crisis over...
View ArticleCopyright Law and the Creative Industries – QUT Faculty of Law – 29 October 2020
[Research Symposium, QUT Faculty of Law, 29 October 2020] This event focused upon copyright law and the creative industries. It brought together legal scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners;...
View ArticleLegal Avenues to Tobacco Endgame Goal
QUT Media, 11 November 2020 11th November 2020 A multi-stranded strategy is needed to reach the lofty goal of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame (CREATE), says a...
View ArticleRemaking the Maker Movement – 3rd February 2021
Remaking the Maker Movement QUT Faculty of Business and Law Wednesday, 3 February 2021 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Z1064, Gibson Room, Level 10, Z Block QUT Gardens Point Campus OVERVIEW This event will focus...
View Article‘Right to repair’ movement pushes back against throwaway society
[Queensland University of Technology Press Release] Australia must join the global ‘right to repair’ movement with a holistic reform of consumer, competition and environmental law to ensure recognition...
View ArticleThe TRIPS Waiver: Intellectual Property, Access to Essential Medicines, and...
This research event focused upon the geopolitical debate over access to essential medicines during the coronavirus public health crisis. I brought together researchers, experts and scholars working in...
View ArticleAustralia and Developed Nations must share COVID-19 Technologies with the World
Press Release, QUT Media, 18 May 2022 18th May 2022 Australia and other national governments should follow the lead of the United States and share their intellectual property on COVID-19 technology...
View ArticleMisleading environmental marketing messages need regulation – A submission to...
[QUT] Australia needs a new, independent regulatory body and specific offences, penalties and remedies to curb deceptive ‘greenwashing’ marketing claims after the ACCC found the practice was rife among...
View ArticleThe Medical Right to Repair: Intellectual Property, the Maker Movement, and...
by Matthew RimmerFaculty of Business and Law, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD 4000, AustraliaSustainability 2023, 15(20), 14839; https://doi.org/10.3390/su152014839 Received:...
View ArticleShane Rattenbury, the Productivity Commission, and the Right to Repair:...
Berkeley Technology Law Journal Matthew Rimmer Abstract This Article tells the story of the fight for the right to repair in Australia. It is intended to complement comparative research elsewhere,...
View ArticleTobacco bill before the Australian Senate – “a symphony of law reform”
QUT News 29th November 2023 QUT researcher Professor Matthew Rimmer, who contributed to the Senate report on the new tobacco regulation bill, has praised the legislation as laying the foundation for...
View ArticleIntellectual Property and Public Health: Symposium — 8 December 2023
Australian Centre for Health Law Research QUT Faculty of Business and Law The Gibson Room, Level 10, Z Block, Gardens Point, QUT Friday, the 8th December 2023 Overview The Australian Centre for Health...
View ArticleSustainable Innovation: Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer, and...
QUT News, 22 February 2024 22nd February 2024 The role of intellectual property rights in technology transfer to developing countries and least developed countries to achieve the UN Sustainable...
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