Professor Ann Monotti

Professor
LLB (Hons), LLM, PhD,

Professional Profile

Ann Monotti is Professor and Associate Dean (Postgraduate Studies) in the Monash University Law School, Australia. She is a co-author of Australian Intellectual Property Law (with Mark Davison and Leanne Wiseman) which was published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press and the principal author of Universities and Intellectual Property, Ownership and Exploitation (Oxford University Press, NY in 2003) (with Sam Ricketson). She has received research grants from the Australian Research Council to pursue research in relation to universities and ownership and exploitation of intellectual property, and access to and protection of biomedical research materials. In addition, she has published widely in both Australian and European journals on copyright and patent related issues and is an Australian correspondent for the European Intellectual Property Review and a member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Law Council of Australia.

Areas of Expertise

Ownership and exploitation of intellectual property in universities
Intellectual property aspects of eResearch
Intellectual property
Access to tangible research materials in biomedical research
Patent law
Designs law
Law of trade secrets

Teaching Commitments

Patents Trade Secrets & Allied Rights (LAW7119)
Designs Law and Practice (LAW7254)