Overview
Background
Brad Sherman is a UQ Laureate Fellow 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 focuses on the intersection of intellectual property and science and technology studies, as well as the impact of intellectual property on food and agriculture. He is currently working on the role intellectual property played in the formation of the Californian citrus industry in the early twentieth century.
Availability
- Professor Brad Sherman is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Research interests
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Intellectual Property
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Law, science and technology
Works
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2025
Journal Article
Law in non-places
Sherman, Brad (2025). Law in non-places. The Modern Law Review.
2025
Other Outputs
The impact of access and benefit-sharing measures on use and exchange of genetic resources for food and agriculture and associated traditional knowledge: draft report
Sherman, Brad, Adhikari, Kamalesh and Balaji, Sruthi (2025). The impact of access and benefit-sharing measures on use and exchange of genetic resources for food and agriculture and associated traditional knowledge: draft report . Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, United Nations.
2025
Book Chapter
The rise and fall of the United Kingdom’s forgotten utility model : the Utility Designs Act 1843*
Bently, Lionel and Sherman, Brad (2025). The rise and fall of the United Kingdom’s forgotten utility model : the Utility Designs Act 1843*. Sub-patent Innovation Rights. (pp. 31-85) edited by Jorge L. Contreras. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781009478113.006
2025
Journal Article
Disclosure of country of origin in patent applications might not help to protect genetic resources and traditional knowledge
Balaji, Sruthi, Fish, Allison and Sherman, Brad (2025). Disclosure of country of origin in patent applications might not help to protect genetic resources and traditional knowledge. Nature Plants, 11 (1), 4-5. doi: 10.1038/s41477-024-01880-z
2025
Book Chapter
The Rise and Fall of the United Kingdom's Forgotten Utility Model
Bently, Lionel and Sherman, Brad (2025). The Rise and Fall of the United Kingdom's Forgotten Utility Model. Sub-Patent Innovation Rights: Utility Models, Petty Patents and Innovation Patents Around the World. (pp. 31-85) edited by Jorge L. Contreras. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
2024
Journal Article
Indigenous peoples’ rights should be recognized and strengthened to boost food innovation research
Adhikari, Kamalesh, Sherman, Brad, Marrie, Henrietta, Sultanbawa, Yasmina and Chen, Gengning (2024). Indigenous peoples’ rights should be recognized and strengthened to boost food innovation research. Nature Food, 5 (10), 802-804. doi: 10.1038/s43016-024-01051-5
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
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. 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
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) edited by Susy Frankel, Margaret Chon, Graeme B. Dinwoodie, Barbara Lauriat and Jens Schovsbo. 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 (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
Funding
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Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Protection, access, and benefit sharing of Australian Indigenous Knowledge: Proposing a dynamic framework model
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Allison Fish
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Doctor Philosophy
SEPs in Biotechnology Spectrum
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Allison Fish
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Doctor Philosophy
The Use of Evidence in Australia's Plain Packaging Tobacco Laws
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Allison Fish
Completed supervision
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2025
Doctor Philosophy
A Tale of Two Identities: The Characterisation of Scientific Subject Matter in the US Patent System
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Allison Fish
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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: Associate Professor 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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2025
Doctor Philosophy
Gastronomy as Intangible Heritage: Native Plants, Food Labels, and Law in Tucson's UNESCO City of Gastronomy
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa, Associate Professor Allison Fish
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Accommodating Artificial Intelligence-generated Works in Indonesian Copyright Law: Challenges and Possibilities
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Allison Fish
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