Landmarks in Australian Intellectual Property Law

Andrew T. Kenyon is Professor in the Faculty of Law and Director of the Centre for Media and Communications Law at the University of Melbourne. Megan Richardson is Professor in the Faculty of Law and Deputy Director of the Centre for Media and Communications Law at the University of Melbourne. Sam Ricketson is Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne and practises at the Victorian Bar.

List of contributors; Table of cases; Table of statutes; Introduction; 1. Potter v Broken Hill: misuse of precedent in cross-border IP litigation Richard Garnett; 2. The Union Label case: an early Australian IP story Sam Ricketson; 3. RPM for RPM: National Phonograph Company of Australia v Menck Peter Heerey and Nicole Malone; 4. Horses and the law: the enduring legacy of Victoria Park Racing Jill McKeough; 5. We have never been modern: the High Court's decision in National Research Development Corporation v Commissioner of Patents Stephen Hubicki and Brad Sherman; 6. Of vice-chancellors and authors: UNSW v Moorhouse Sam Ricketson and David Catterns; 7. Foster v Mountford: cultural confidentiality in a changing Australia Christoph Antons; 8. Cadbury Schweppes v Pub Squash: what is all the fizz about? Mark Davison; 9. The Firmagroup case: trigger for designs law reform Janice Luck; 10. Larger than life in the Australian cinema: Pacific Dunlop v Hogan Megan Richardson; 11. O Fortuna! On the vagaries of litigation and the story of musical debasement in Australia Elizabeth Adeney; 12. The protection of At the Waterhole by John Bulun Bulun: Aboriginal art and the recognition of private and communal rights Colin Golvan; 13. The grapes of wrath: geographical indications, international trade and the Coonawarra case Matthew Rimmer; 14. Waiting for the 'Billy'® to boil: the Waltzing Matilda case Leanne Wiseman and Matthew Hall; 15. The Panel case Melissa de Zwart.