Overview
Background
Sruthi Balaji is a research fellow at the TC Beirne School of Law and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture, with a focus on intellectual property law and associated legal regimes. She holds a PhD from UQ (2025).
Sruthi's main research interests focus on the intersections of intellectual property law and the governance of genetic resources. Sruthi is particularly interested in how legal systems conceptualise scientific objects, knowledge and “information” in the context of agriculture, genetics and biotechnology. Having recently completed her PhD she is now exploring how emerging debates expose the limitations of current legal frameworks, in both domestic and international legal systems, and highlight the need for more responsive and tailored approaches to the regulation of genetic resources.
Availability
- Ms Sruthi Balaji is:
- Not available for supervision
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Economics, The University of Queensland
- Bachelor (Honours) of Law, The University of Queensland
- Doctor of Philosophy of Intellectual Property Law, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Intellectual property law
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Patent law
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Access and Benefit Sharing
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Governance of genetic resources
Works
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2025
Other Outputs
A tale of two identities: the characterisation of scientific subject matter in the US patent system
Balaji, Sruthi (2025). A tale of two identities: the characterisation of scientific subject matter in the US patent system. PhD Thesis, School of Law, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/e48c4af
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
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
2024
Journal Article
Because you break them, I had to take them: Taylor's version of 'Lover' and trademark
Balaji, Sruthi (2024). Because you break them, I had to take them: Taylor's version of 'Lover' and trademark. Media and Arts Law Review, 22 (1), 33-66.
2023
Journal Article
Non-singular Logics of Intellectual Property in Biomedical Innovation
Nadh, P Omkar, Devarapalli, Pratap and Balaji, Sruthi (2023). Non-singular Logics of Intellectual Property in Biomedical Innovation. Pólemos, 17 (2), 347-366. doi: 10.1515/pol-2023-2025
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