QUT Media 29 May 2023 E-cigarette Companies Seek IP Protections in Face of Rising Regulation A sharp rise in intellectual property applications regarding e-cigarettes indicates high investment and speculation in new technology related to them, says QUT Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation Matthew Rimmer. Queensland inquiry into Vaping and…

QUT Media, 13 April 2023 Rimmer, Matthew (2023) A Submission on the Tobacco and Other Smoking Products Amendment Bill 2023 (Qld): Health and Environment Committee, the Queensland Parliament. Health and Environment Committee, the Queensland Parliament. Queensland must adopt a tobacco endgame strategy 13th April 2023 The elimination of smoking in…

Matthew Rimmer Script-ed Volume 20, Issue 1, February 2023 Matthew Rimmer* Download PDF Abstract Considering recent litigation in the Australian courts, and an inquiry by the Productivity Commission, this paper calls for patent law reform in respect of the right to repair in Australia. It provides an evaluation of the decision…

Matthew Rimmer Abstract This commentary highlights the history of conflict and division over intellectual property, technology transfer, and clean technologies during international climate negotiations. It considers the scope for open licensing to make environmental knowledge, data, technology, and intellectual property more widely accessible and available in order to better address…

by Matthew Rimmer Faculty of Business and Law, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia Academic Editor: Patricia Easteal Laws 2022, 11(5), 79; https://doi.org/10.3390/laws11050079 Received: 16 September 2022 / Revised: 13 October 2022 / Accepted: 14 October 2022 / Published: 19 October 2022 Download PDF Citation Export Abstract In…

Press Release, QUT Media, 18 May 2022 18th May 2022 Australia and other national governments should follow the lead of the United States and share their intellectual property on COVID-19 technology through the World Health Organisation’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP), says QUT IP law expert Professor Matthew Rimmer. US’s…

Research Symposium Australian Centre for Health Law Research QUT Faculty of Business and Law Friday, 10 December 2021 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Z1064, Gibson Room, Level 10, Z Block QUT Gardens Point Campus OVERVIEW This research event focuses upon the geopolitical debate over access to essential medicines during the…

Australia must join the global ‘right to repair’ movement with a holistic reform of consumer, competition and environmental law to ensure recognition of consumers’ ‘right to repair’ goods rather than having to throw them out and replace them. Internationally, consumer rights laws aim to make ‘built-in obsolescence’ obsolete Expensive or…

Submission Matthew Rimmer, ‘A Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties on The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership’, Canberra: Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, Australian Parliament, April 2021, https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Treaties/RCEP , QUT ePrints: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/210126, BePress Selected Works: https://works.bepress.com/matthew_rimmer/376/, SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3893279 and OSF: https://osf.io/3mvd9