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:

A critical and historical analysis of Australia's R&D tax expenditure programs - has redesigning achieved government policy to foster private sector R&D investment?

Open source software in collaborative projects

SJD:

Gene patenting and the biodiversity: The case of Thailand

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

2010

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

Monotti A L, 'Innovation patents: The concept of manner of new manufacture and assessment of innovative step: Dura-Post (Aust) Pty Ltd v Delnorth Pty Ltd' (2010) 32(2) European Intellectual Property Review 93-7

Monotti A L, 'University of Western Australia v Gray (2009) FCAFC 116' (2010) 32(1) European Intellectual Property Review  N1-2

 Monotti A L, 'Divergent approaches in defining the appropriate level of inventiveness in patent law' in Bently, L, D'Agastino, G and Ng, C (eds), The Common Law of Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Professor David Vaver (Hart, UK: 2010), 178-198. 

Complete listing of publications, including those prior to 2010