IPRIA - Employees’ IP and the Employment Relationship – Incentives to Innovate
Free Seminar presented by IPRIA and CELRL in association with IP Australia
Date: Wednesday 23rd April 2008
Time: 6.00 pm; refreshments from 5.30pm
Venue: Davies Collison Cave, 1 Nicholson Street, Melbourne
Speakers: Colin Fenwick, Director, Centre for Employment & Labour Relations Law, Chris Dent, Senior Research Fellow, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia and Graeme Huon, Founder of audio acoustics technology and product development companies Whise, Precision Audio and TechstreamWhise
Chair: Victor Portelli, General Manager, Patents and Plant Breeders Rights Group, IP Australia
This seminar explores a number of issues that arise from the intersection of labour law, IP law and the need for incentives for innovation, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Colin Fenwick will highlight the manner in which the law does, and does not provide incentives for workers to innovate. Chris Dent will introduce ideas that have been put forward as frameworks to better imagine the way in which the law can offer incentives for innovation. Graeme Huon will offer insights, based on his experience as an inventor and as a head of a firm focused on innovation, into the expectations of the legal process as a tool for encouraging workers, and their employers, to engage in the processes of invention and creativity.