Overview
Background
Brad Sherman is a Professor of Law at The University of Queensland. Professor Sherman's previous academic positions include posts at Griffith University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Cambridge. His research expertise encompasses many aspects of intellectual property law, with a particular emphasis on its historical, doctrinal and conceptual development. In 2015 Professor Sherman was awarded a highly prestigious Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship. His laureate project Harnessing Intellectual Property to Build Food Security looks at the role of intellectual property in relation to food security. The research will help to maximise the benefits while minimising the costs of using IP protection to improve agricultural productivity and food security in Australia and the Asia Pacific.
Availability
- Professor Brad Sherman is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Research interests
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Intellectual Property
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Food Security
Works
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2015
Journal Article
Before the high court: D'Arcy v Myriad Genetics Inc: patenting genes in Australia
Brad Sherman (2015). Before the high court: D'Arcy v Myriad Genetics Inc: patenting genes in Australia. The Sydney Law Review, 37 (1), 135-146.
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2015
Book Chapter
Limiting Patents
Sherman, Brad and Bently, Lionel (2015). Limiting Patents. Compulsory Licensing: Practical Experiences and Ways Forward. (pp. 313-331) edited by Reto M. Hilty and Kung-Chung Liu. Berlin: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-54704-1_16
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2014
Book
Intellectual property law
Bently, Lionel and Sherman, Brad (2014). Intellectual property law. 4th ed. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
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2013
Book Chapter
Reconceptualising Intellectual Property to Promote Food Security
Sherman, Brad (2013). Reconceptualising Intellectual Property to Promote Food Security. The Intellectual Property and Food Project: From Rewarding Innovation and Creation to Feeding the World. (pp. 23-38) edited by Jay Sanderson and Charles Lawson. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
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2013
Book Chapter
On the Prehistory of Intellectual Property
Sherman, Brad and Pottage, Alain (2013). On the Prehistory of Intellectual Property. Concepts of Property in Intellectual Property Law. (pp. 11-28) edited by Helena R Howe and Jonathan Griffiths. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
2024
Book
Intangible intangibles: patent law's engagement with dematerialised subject matter
Sherman, Brad (2024). Intangible intangibles: patent law's engagement with dematerialised subject matter. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781009479639
2023
Book Chapter
Artificial flowers: Plastic nature, synthetic biology
Bellido, Jose and Sherman, Brad (2023). Artificial flowers: Plastic nature, synthetic biology. Intellectual Property and the Design of Nature. (pp. 236-259) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192864406.003.0009
2023
Book
Intellectual property and the design of nature
Jose Bellido and Brad Sherman eds. (2023). Intellectual property and the design of nature. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192864406.001.0001
2023
Book Chapter
The place of nature in intellectual property
Bellido, Jose and Sherman, Brad (2023). The place of nature in intellectual property. Intellectual property and the design of nature. (pp. 1-22) edited by Jose Bellido and Brad Sherman. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
2023
Journal Article
The Spectre of the Machine: Finding Space for Empirical Inventions in Patent Law
Sherman, Brad (2023). The Spectre of the Machine: Finding Space for Empirical Inventions in Patent Law. Pólemos, 17 (2), 217-231. doi: 10.1515/pol-2023-2018
2023
Book
Intellectual property and the design of nature
Jose Bellido and Brad Sherman eds. (2023). Intellectual property and the design of nature. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
2023
Book Chapter
Artificial flowers: plastic nature, synthetic biology
Bellido , Jose and Sherman, Brad (2023). Artificial flowers: plastic nature, synthetic biology. Intellectual property and the design of nature. (pp. 159-189) edited by Jose Bellido and Brad Sherman. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
2023
Book Chapter
AI machines as inventors: the role of human agency in patent law
Sherman, Brad (2023). AI machines as inventors: the role of human agency in patent law. Improving intellectual property: a global project. (pp. 214-223) Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
2022
Other Outputs
Labelling Requirements and the Plant Breeder’s Rights Act 1994 (Cth)
MacDonald, Hamish and Sherman, Brad (2022). Labelling Requirements and the Plant Breeder’s Rights Act 1994 (Cth). Plant Breeder's Rights - University of Queensland independent research reports Labrador, QLD, Australia: Black Jettie.
2022
Other Outputs
Information Notice Systems and the Plant Breeder’s Rights Act 1994 (Cth)
MacDonald, Hamish and Sherman, Brad (2022). Information Notice Systems and the Plant Breeder’s Rights Act 1994 (Cth). Plant Breeder's Rights - University of Queensland independent research reports Labrador, QLD, Australia: Black Jettie.
2022
Other Outputs
Essentially derived varieties and the Plant Breeder’s Rights Act 1994 (Cth)
MacDonald, Hamish and Sherman, Brad (2022). Essentially derived varieties and the Plant Breeder’s Rights Act 1994 (Cth). Plant Breeder's Rights - University of Queensland independent research reports Labrador, QLD, Australia: Black Jettie.
2022
Book Chapter
Using ‘Technology to Fill the Gaps in the Law': The Use of Machine Learning to Monitor Bioprospecting and Biopiracy in India
Fish, Allison and Sherman, Brad (2022). Using ‘Technology to Fill the Gaps in the Law': The Use of Machine Learning to Monitor Bioprospecting and Biopiracy in India. The Philosophy and Law of Information Regulation in India. (pp. 1-11) edited by Divij Joshi and Sudhir Krishnaswamy. Bangalore, India: Centre for Law and Policy Research. doi: 10.54999/2c0l1p0r
2022
Book
Intellectual Property Law
Bently, Lionel, Sherman, Brad, Ganjee, Dev and Johnson, Phillip (2022). Intellectual Property Law. 6th ed. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
2022
Book Chapter
Which Nagoya protocol?: User-driven solutions to the legal uncertainty created by Nagoya
Sherman, Brad and Sherman, Brad (2022). Which Nagoya protocol?: User-driven solutions to the legal uncertainty created by Nagoya. Access and benefit sharing of genetic resources, information and traditional knowledge. (pp. 249-258) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003301998-20
2021
Journal Article
Access to biodiversity for food production: reconciling open assess digital sequence information with access and benefit sharing
Sherman, Brad and Henry, Robert J. (2021). Access to biodiversity for food production: reconciling open assess digital sequence information with access and benefit sharing. Molecular Plant, 14 (5), 701-704. doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2021.03.005
Funding
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Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
The repatriation of plant products: what should be repatriated and how?
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Allison Fish
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Doctor Philosophy
Protection, access, and benefit sharing of Australian Indigenous Knowledge: Proposing a dynamic framework model
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Allison Fish
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Doctor Philosophy
Using marks and designations to build and sustain local food and agriculture
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa, Dr Allison Fish
Completed supervision
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Last, the Plant: Governing Cotton in British Colonial India, 1850-1942
Principal Advisor
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
The Role of the law in the circulation of the Kakadu plum (Terminalia ferdinandiana)
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Allison Fish
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Abstracting Plants: Legal and Scientific Judgement in Australia's Plant Breeder's Rights System
Principal Advisor
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Intellectual Property and Peanuts in the United States, 1896-1955
Principal Advisor
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Experimenting with the Governance of Plants as Intellectual Property: Limitations, Possibilities, and the Ecuadorian Experience
Principal Advisor
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2007
Doctor Philosophy
SUI GENERIS PROTECTION OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE AMAZON
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Jennifer Corrin
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Accommodating Artificial Intelligence-generated Works in Indonesian Copyright Law: Challenges and Possibilities
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Allison Fish
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