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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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.
2013
Conference Publication
Exclusions from Patentability and Exceptions to Patentees’ Rights
Sherman, Bradley G. (2013). Exclusions from Patentability and Exceptions to Patentees’ Rights. The Fifth Conference on European and Asian Intellectual Property Rights: Compulsory Licensing, Taipei, Taiwan, December 2013.
2013
Book Chapter
'Towards a History of Patent Law'
Sherman, Brad (2013). 'Towards a History of Patent Law'. Intellectual Property in Common Law and Civil Law. (pp. 3-18) edited by Toshiko Takenaka. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar.
2012
Book
Copyright and the Challenge of the New
Sherman, Brad and Wiseman, L. (2012). Copyright and the Challenge of the New. United Kingdom: Kluwer Law International.
2012
Book Chapter
Public ownership of private spectacles: copyright and television
Sherman, Brad (2012). Public ownership of private spectacles: copyright and television. Copyright and the Challenge of the New. (pp. 221-249) edited by Brad Sherman and Leanne Wiseman. Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands: Kluwer Law International.
2012
Book Chapter
Copyright: when old technologies were new
Sherman, Brad (2012). Copyright: when old technologies were new. Copyright and the Challenge of the New. (pp. 1-9) edited by Brad Sherman and Leanne Wiseman. Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands: Kluwer Law International.
2012
Conference Publication
Public Ownership of Private Spectacles: Copyright and Television
Sherman, Bradley G. (2012). Public Ownership of Private Spectacles: Copyright and Television. 2012 International Conference on Law and Society, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2012.
2011
Conference Publication
Plant Breeder’s Rights & Intellectual Property Issues
Sherman, Brad (2011). Plant Breeder’s Rights & Intellectual Property Issues. Australia Flower Conference 2011, Brisbane, Australia, July 2011.
2011
Journal Article
What is a copyright work?
Sherman, Brad (2011). What is a copyright work?. Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 12 (1), 5.99-5.121. doi: 10.2202/1565-3404.1264
2011
Conference Publication
The Patenting of University-Based Research in Australia
Sherman, Bradley G. (2011). The Patenting of University-Based Research in Australia. Bayh-Dole @30: Mapping the Future of University Patenting, Davis, CA, United States, April 2011.
2011
Book Chapter
Kinds, clones, and manufactures
Pottage, Alain and Sherman, Bradley G. (2011). Kinds, clones, and manufactures. Making and unmaking intellectual property: creative production in legal and cultural perspective. (pp. 269-283) edited by Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi and Martha Woodmansee. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2011
Conference Publication
Creativity, Copying and the Problem of the Intangible
Sherman, Bradley G. (2011). Creativity, Copying and the Problem of the Intangible. The University of Queensland School of Architecture Seminar Series, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, May 2011.
2011
Conference Publication
Bio-Legal Hybrids: understanding biological inventions
Sherman, Bradley G. (2011). Bio-Legal Hybrids: understanding biological inventions. Workshop Discussion Series: Technological Cultures: Themes and Methods in the History of Technology, Berlin, Germany, February 2011.
2010
Journal Article
Fair copy: Protecting access to scientific information in post-war Britain
Sherman, Brad and Wiseman, Leanne (2010). Fair copy: Protecting access to scientific information in post-war Britain. The Modern Law Review, 73 (2), 240-261. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2230.2010.00792.x
2010
Book
Figures of invention : a history of modern patent law
Pottage, Alain and Sherman, Brad (2010). Figures of invention : a history of modern patent law. 1st ed. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
2009
Book Chapter
We have never been modern: The High Court's decision in National Research Development Corporation v Commissioner of Patents
Hubicki, Stephen and Sherman, Brad (2009). We have never been modern: The High Court's decision in National Research Development Corporation v Commissioner of Patents. Landmarks in Australian Intellectual Property Law. (pp. 73-96) edited by Andrew T. Kenyon, Megan Richardson and Sam Ricketson. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
2009
Book Chapter
Patent Issues in Biotechnology
Bently, Lionel, Sherman, Brad and Hubicki, Stephen (2009). Patent Issues in Biotechnology. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. (pp. 1-5) Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. doi: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0005189.pub2
2009
Journal Article
Developments in Copyright: The Last 40 Years
Sherman, Bradley G. (2009). Developments in Copyright: The Last 40 Years. Copyright Reporter, 27 (4), 122-128.
Funding
Current funding
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: Associate Professor Allison Fish
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Doctor Philosophy
The repatriation of plant products: what should be repatriated and how?
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor 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: 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
Using marks and designations to build and sustain local food and agriculture
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa, Associate Professor 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, Associate Professor 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: Associate Professor Allison Fish
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Intellectual Property and Peanuts in the United States, 1896-1955
Principal Advisor
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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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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: Associate Professor Allison Fish
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