Professor Ann Monotti

Research Interests

Copyright
Designs Law
Intellectual Property
Internet/Cyber Law
Licensing and Technology Transfer
Patents for Inventions
Science/Technology
Trade Secrets and Confidential Information

Supervisor Profile

Qualified to supervise: Honours; Masters; PhD;

Current projects under supervision

Honours:

No current projects

Masters:

No current projects

Doctoral:

PhD: "Open source software in collaborative projects"

Editorial Boards

Australian correspondent for European Intellectual Property Review: Sweet & Maxwell Ltd, UK

Intenational Journal of Technology and Policy and Law (IJTPL)

Grants and Commissions

2006: DEST- $125,000. The Dataset Acquisition, Access and Annotation Repository Technologies Project (DA3RT) with Moira Paterson and David Lindsay. Total project funding: $3,237,000
(*Monash University is lead institution. Partners: James Cook University, University of Queensland)

2002: Monash Research Fund Travel Grant to attend and present a paper at the SURF IWI conference: Copyright and Universities: From Principles to Practices, held in Zwolle, The Netherlands, 6-7 December - $1,000

2002: ARC Large Grant Balancing intellectual property and other rights in tangible research materials used in biomedical research - $44,000

2001: Monash Research Fund Travel Grant to attend the first SURF IWI working conference on Copyright and Universities, June 7-8, 2001, held in Zwolle, The Netherlands - $1,000

2001: ARC Large Grant Balancing intellectual property and other rights in tangible research materials used in biomedical research - $27,072

2000: ARC Small Grant Legal and policy issues involved in the access to tangible research materials used in biotechnological research in public research institutions - $8,000

1996: ARC Large Grant with S Ricketson & S McNicol Universities and the ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights: A theoretical, national and comparative study - $20,536

1995: ARC Large Grant with S Ricketson & S McNicol Universities and the ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights: A theoretical, national and comparative study - $25,000

1994: Monash Research Fund Grant with S Ricketson & S McNicol The ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights within universities - $30,000

Publications

2009

A number of Professor Monotti's publications are available to download from SSRN.
See  http://ssrn.com/author=722050

Monotti A L, 'Commercialisation of university research and free difussion: What does experience show works best in and for Australia' in Arup C and Van Caenegem W (eds) Intellectual Property Policy Reform. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, UK, USA, 2009, 221-249

Monotti A L, 'The Australian experimental use exemption: A current overview' (2009) 12(5)  TheJournal of World Intellectual Property 422-445
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120125414/issue

2008

Monotti A L, 'Scope of prior art', (2008) 30(7) European Intellectual Property Review N49-N50

Monotti A L, 'Whether patent obtained by false suggestion or misinterpretation' (2008) 30(9) European Intellectual Property Review N65-N66

Australian Intellectual Property Law (with Davison, M.D. & Wiseman, L.),  Cambridge University Press, Australia, 2008 (Chapters 11-16)

Complete listing of publications, including those prior to 2008