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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2020
Journal Article
Mobilizing crop biodiversity
McCouch, Susan, Navabi, Zahra Katy, Abberton, Michael, Anglin, Noelle L., Barbieri, Rosa Lia, Baum, Michael, Bett, Kirstin, Booker, Helen, Brown, Gerald L., Bryan, Glenn J., Cattivelli, Luigi, Charest, David, Eversole, Kellye, Freitas, Marcelo, Ghamkhar, Kioumars, Grattipaglia, Dario, Henry, Robert, Valadares Inglis, Maria Cleria, Islam, Tofazzal, Kehel, Zakaria, Kersey, Paul J., King, Graham J., Kresovich, Stephen, Marden, Emily, Mayes, Sean, Ndjiondjiop, Marie Noelle, Nguyen, Henry T., Paiva, Samuel Rezende, Papa, Roberto ... Rieseberg, Loren H. (2020). Mobilizing crop biodiversity. Molecular Plant, 13 (10), 1341-1344. doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2020.08.011
2020
Other Outputs
Collecting Australian native plant materials from the Wild: Guidelines on key legal issues
Adhikari, Kamalesh, Sherman, Brad and Jefferson, David James (2020). Collecting Australian native plant materials from the Wild: Guidelines on key legal issues. The ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Uniquely Australian Foods.
2020
Other Outputs
Collecting Australian native plant materials from intermediaries: Guidelines on key legal issues
Sherman, Brad, Adhikari,Kamalesh and Jefferson, David (2020). Collecting Australian native plant materials from intermediaries: Guidelines on key legal issues. The ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Uniquely Australian Foods, The University of Queensland.
2020
Journal Article
The Nagoya Protocol and historical collections of plants
Sherman, Brad and Henry, Robert James (2020). The Nagoya Protocol and historical collections of plants. Nature Plants, 6 (5), 430-432. doi: 10.1038/s41477-020-0657-8
2020
Book Chapter
Foreword
Sherman, Brad (2020). Foreword. Intellectual property law and plant protection challenges and developments in Asia. (pp. xvii-xviii) edited by Kamalesh Adhikari and David J. Jefferson. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
2019
Book Chapter
Climbing rose
Sherman, Brad (2019). Climbing rose. A history of intellectual property in 50 objects. (pp. 184-191) edited by Claudy Op den Kamp and Dan Hunter. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108325806.023
2018
Other Outputs
Intellectual property and related legal issues facing the Australian Native Food Industry
Adhikari, Kamalesh, Bosse, Jocelyn, Fish, Allison and Sherman, Brad (2018). Intellectual property and related legal issues facing the Australian Native Food Industry. AgriFutures Australia Publication Wagga Wagga NSW Australia: AgriFutures Australia.
2018
Journal Article
Finding a place for agriculture in intellectual property law
Chapman, Susannah and Sherman, Brad (2018). Finding a place for agriculture in intellectual property law. IIC International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 49 (7), 759-762. doi: 10.1007/s40319-018-0753-8
2018
Journal Article
Intangible machines: patent protection for software in the United States
Sherman, Brad (2018). Intangible machines: patent protection for software in the United States. History of Science, 57 (1), 73275318770781-37. doi: 10.1177/0073275318770781
2018
Book
Intellectual property law
Bently, Lionel, Sherman, Brad, Gangjee, Dev and Johnson, Phillip (2018). Intellectual property law. 5th ed. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
2017
Book Chapter
Intellectual property, biodiversity and food security
Sherman, Brad (2017). Intellectual property, biodiversity and food security. Routledge handbook of biodiversity and the law. (pp. 326-336) edited by Charles R. McManis and Burton Ong. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315530857-21
2017
Book Chapter
Slee and Harris’s Application (1966)
Sherman, Brad (2017). Slee and Harris’s Application (1966). Landmarks in intellectual property law. (pp. 231-252) edited by Jose Bellido. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing. doi: 10.5040/9781509904693.ch-009
2017
Book Chapter
Slee & Harris’s Application (1966)
Sherman, Brad (2017). Slee & Harris’s Application (1966). Landmark cases in intellectual property law. (pp. 231-251) edited by Jose Bellido. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Bloomsbury Publishing.
2016
Book Chapter
From Terroir to Pangkarra: geographical indications of origin and traditional knowledge
Sherman, Brad and Wiseman, Leanne (2016). From Terroir to Pangkarra: geographical indications of origin and traditional knowledge. Research handbook on intellectual property and geographical indications. (pp. 484-507) edited by Dev S. Ganjee. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar. doi: 10.4337/9781784719470.00029
2015
Journal Article
What does it mean to invent nature?
Sherman, Brad (2015). What does it mean to invent nature?. UC Irvine Law Review, 5 (5), 1193-1230.
2015
Conference Publication
Textual Machines: The Material Concerns of Intellectual Property in Software
Sherman, Brad (2015). Textual Machines: The Material Concerns of Intellectual Property in Software. Society for the Study of Science Conference, Denver, CO, United States, 12 Nov 2015.
2014
Conference Publication
What does it mean to invent nature?
Sherman, Bradley G. (2014). What does it mean to invent nature?. The Meaning of Myriad Conference, Irvine, CA, United States, 12 Sept 2014.
2014
Conference Publication
Traditional Knowledge and Geographical Indications of Origin
Sherman, Bradley G. (2014). Traditional Knowledge and Geographical Indications of Origin. Innovating Communication in Scholarship Speaker Series, University of California, Davis, USA, 10 September 2014.
2014
Conference Publication
Sharing Data Subject to Additional Legal & Ethical Considerations
Sherman, Bradley G. (2014). Sharing Data Subject to Additional Legal & Ethical Considerations. Data Rights & Data Wrongs Conference, Innovating Communication in Scholarship, Davis, CA, United States, 10 Dec 2014.
2014
Book Chapter
Facilitating access to information: understanding the role of technology in copyright law
Wiseman, Leanne and Sherman, Brad (2014). Facilitating access to information: understanding the role of technology in copyright law. The evolution and equilibrium of copyright in the digital age. (pp. 221-240) edited by Susy Frankel and Daniel Gervais. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
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
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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