Michael Blakeney BA, LLM (Sydney), MA (NSW)

Michael Blakeney is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary, University of London. He has held academic positions at a number of Universities in Australia and the UK and formerly worked in the Asia Pacific Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization. His consultancy work has been in the fields off access to genetic resources and biotechnological patenting. He has had advised the FAO, and the international agricultural research centres of the Consulting Group for International Agricultural Research, including the International Rice Research Institute, International Centre for Living Resource Management, the Centre for International Forestry Research, the International Livestock Research Institute and the International Service for National Agricultural Research on intellectual property management. Michael is a member of the Editorial Boards of International Trade Law and Regulation, Digital Technology Law Journal and Cyberspazio e Diritto - Cyberspace and Law.

Research Interests

Michael Blakeney's current research projects are in the fields of traditional knowledge and access to genetic resources and geographical indications.

Publications Since 2001

Zur Durchsetzbarkeit von Immaterialgüterrechten in Bulgarien (Co-author with J. Gibson and G. Westkamp) [2006] 15(9) Wirtschaft und Recht in Osteuropa 271-276, ISSN: 0941-6293 [URL]

Protecting Traditional Cultural Expressions: The International Dimension, in F. Macmillan & K. Bowrey (Editors), New Directions in Copyright Law: Volume 3, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006, 3-14, ISBN: 1845422627 [URL]

The Protection of Geographical Indications after Doha: Quo Vadis? (Co-author with G. Evans) [2006] 9(3) Journal of International Economic Law 1- 40, ISSN: 1369-3034 [URL]

Hans Christian Andersen and the Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions, in H. Porsdam (Editor), Copyright and Other Fairy Tales, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006, 108-128, ISBN: 1845426010 [URL]

The Phenomenon of Counterfeiting and Piracy in the European Union: Factual Overview and Legal and Institutional Framework, in O. Vrins and M. Schneider (Editors), Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights through Border Measures: Law and Practice in the EU, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 3-34, ISBN: 0199288798 [URL]

Cultural Property and IPRs: Introduction, in F.W. Grosheide and J.J. Brinkhof (Editors), Intellectual Property Law 2004: Articles on Crossing Borders between Traditional and Actual, Antwerp: Intersentia, 2005, 189-191, ISBN: 9050954812 [URL]

Stimulating Agricultural Innovation, in K.E. Maskus and J.H. Reichman (Editors), International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 367-390, ISBN: 0521603021 [URL]

Bioprospecting and Biopiracy, in B. Ong (Editor), Intellectual Property and Biological Resources, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2004, 393-424, ISBN: 9812103716 [URL]

Commentary, in A. Ilardi and M. Blakeney (Editors), International Encyclopaedia of Intellectual Property Treaties, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, 1-183, ISBN: 0199245258 [URL]

TRIPS after the Doha Ministerial Declaration, in C. Antons, M. Blakeney and C. Heath (Editors), Intellectual Property Harmonisation within ASEAN and APEC, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2004, 11-28, ISBN: 9041122923 [URL]

International Intellectual Property Jurisprudence after TRIPS, in D. Vaver and L. Bently (Editors), Intellectual Property in the New Millennium: Essays in Honour of William R. Cornish, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 3-19, ISBN: 0521846439 [URL]

International Proposals to Regulate Intellectual Property Rights in Plant Genetic Resources, in R.V. Evenson and V. Santaniello (Editors), The Regulation of Agricultural Biotechnology, Wallingford: CABI Publishing, 2004, 35-52, ISBN: 0851997422 [URL]

IP Theft, in A. Jolly and J. Philpott (Editors), A Handbook of Intellectual Property Management, London: Kogan Page, 2004, 208-212, ISBN: 0749442239 [URL]

Australia, in F.H. Erbisch and K.M. Maredia (Editors), Intellectual Property Rights in Agricultural Biotechnology, 2ed, Wallingford: CABI Publishing, 2003, 159-172, ISBN: 0851997392 [URL]

The Legal Regulation of Technology Transfer Arrangements within ASEAN, in C. Antons (Editor), Law and Development in East and Southeast Asia, London: Routledge Curzon, 2003, 314-336, ISBN: 0700713212 [URL]

Export Controls in the United Kingdom [2003] 9(6) International Trade Law and Regulation 148-158, ISSN: 1357-3136 [URL]

Protecting the Cultural Expressions of Indigenous People Under Intellectual Property Law: The Australian Experience, in F.W. Grossheide and J.J. Brinkhof (Editors), Intellectual Property Law 2002: Articles on Cultural Expressions and Indigenous Knowledge, Antwerp: Intersentia, 2002, 151-180, ISBN: 905095233X [URL]

Intellectual Property Aspects of Traditional Agricultural Knowledge, in R.E. Evenson, V. Santaniello and D. Zilberman (Editors), Economic and Social Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology, Wallingford: CABI Publishing, 2002, 43-60, ISBN: 0851996183 [URL]

Agricultural Research: Intellectual Property and the CGIAR System, in P. Drahos and R. Mayne (Editors), Global Intellectual Property Rights: Knowledge, Access and Development, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, 108-124, ISBN: 0333990277 [URL]

Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights [2002] 24(1) European Intellectual Property Review 9-19, ISSN: 0142-0461 [URL]

Intellectual Property, Biological Diversity and Agricultural Research in Australia [2002] 53(2) Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 127-147, ISSN: 0004-9409 [URL]

Intellectual Property and Agriculture: The Issue of Biotechnology, in J.A. McMahon (Editor), Trade and Agriculture: Negotiating a New Agreement?, London: Cameron May, 2001, 349-379, ISBN: 1874698813 [URL]

Intellectual Property in the Millennium Round: The TRIPS Agreement after Seattle, in I. Fletcher, L. Mistellis and M. Cremona (Editors), Foundations and Perspectives of International Trade Law, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2001, 534-542, ISBN: 0421741007 [URL]

Intellectual Property Aspects of Traditional Agricultural Knowledge, in M. Blakeney and P. Drahos (Editors), IP in Biodiversity and Agriculture: Regulating the Biosphere, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2001, 29-52, ISBN: 0421766301 [URL]

Plant Variety Protection in Asia: Some Issues of Implementation and Implications for Germplasm Exchange Networks, (Co-author with H. Egelyng), in M. Blakeney and P. Drahos (Editors), IP in Biodiversity and Agriculture: Regulating the Biosphere, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2001, 85-100, ISBN: 0421766301 [URL]

Border Control of Intellectual Property Rights under TRIPS, in M. Blakeney (Editor), Border Control of Intellectual Property Rights, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2001, TRI 1-14, ISBN: 0421710004 [URL]

World Customs Organization, in M. Blakeney (Editor), Border Control of Intellectual Property Rights, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2001, WCO 1-6, ISBN: 0421710004 [URL]

United Kingdom, in M. Blakeney (Editor), Border Control of Intellectual Property Rights, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2001, UK 1-17, ISBN: 0421710004 [URL]

Proposals for the International Regulation of Geographical Indications [2001] 4(5) The Journal of World Intellectual Property 629-652, ISSN: 1422-2213 [URL]

Intellectual Property Rights and Global Food Security [2001] 4(4) Bio-Science Law Review 127-140, ISSN: 1365-8867 [URL]

Genetically Modified Organisms and the World Trade Organization (Co-author with F. Macmillan) [2001] 3(1) Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property 93-116, ISSN: 1533-3531 [URL]

Other Selected Publications

Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights: A Concise Guide to the TRIPS Agreement, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1996, ISBN: 0421536306 [URL]

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