In early December NTEU wrote to the Vice-Chancellor requesting a series of undertakings in relation to the Swinburne Online (SOL) initiative and the effects it was having on staff. On the eve ...
Since UWA vs Gray, the certainty some universities assumed about the common law ownership of various kinds of IP produced by university staff and students has been significantly changed.
This ...
The September e-Bulletin contains articles on:
The September 2010 e-bulletin for CQU contains articles on: o Intellectual Property: beware the 'deed poll' o Call for PVC (Indigenous) o Sustainability discussion paper o Union membership 101
On February 12 2010 the High Court today refused to grant special leave to consider the UWA vs Gray case. See here.
UWA v Gray established that academics do not have a duty to invent in the course of their university employment and that unless there is an express arrangement academics own intellectual property ...
Preceding the Full bench's decision, Justice French set out the legal principles and reasoning of the UWA vs Gray case in his landmark 2008 decision. You can read this case here.
See Justice Nettle's Supreme Court of Victoria decision here.