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IPRIA SEMINAR SERIES

Pre-Grant and Post-Grant Amendments under European, UK and US Patent Laws

Jointly presented by IPRIA and IPTA
and generously sponsored by
Davies Collison Cave
 
Dr Noel Byrne, Adviser, Intellectual Property Law, United Kingdom will present this seminar.
 

Thursday 4 September 2008 at 6.00pm (registrations from 5.30pm).
Davies Collison Cave, 1 Nicholson Street, Melbourne
 

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IPRIA WORKSHOP SERIES

Mastering the Trade Mark System


Fiona Rotstein, Research Fellow, IPRIA,
Julia Adams, Associate Partner, Shiff & Company and
Michael Wolnizer, Partner, Davies Collison Cave, will present this one-day course.

Friday, 12 September 2008 at 9.00am.

Further information and registration details are available here.

Continuing Professional Development:
Law Institute of Victoria

If these educational activities are relevant to your immediate or long term needs in relation to your professional development and practice of the law, then you should claim one unit for each hour of attendance, refreshment breaks not included.

 
Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry)
A scholarship is currently available for PhD study at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
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New Publications
 
OCCASIONAL PAPERS
 
Deepak Somaya, Ian O Williamson and Natalia Korinkova

This paper received Best Paper Award for the HR Division of the 2007 Academy of Management Conference and was also accepted for publication in the Academy of Management Proceedings. 

 
WORKING PAPERS
 

Misclassification in Patent Offices
Paul H Jensen, Alfons Palangkaraya and Elizabeth Webster
(May 2008)

 
Application pendency times and outcomes across four
patent offices

Paul H Jensen, Alfons Palangkaraya and Elizabeth Webster
(February 2008)

Scarcity of Ideas and Options to Invest in R&D
Nisvan Erkal and Suzanne Scotchmer
(December 2007)
 
REPORTS
 
Patent Attorney Privilege in Australia: Rationale, Current Concerns and Avenues for Reform
Elizabeth Hall, Chris Dent and Andrew F Christie
(December 2007)
 


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