The Albanese Government’s leadership on tobacco control and e-cigarette regulation is to be welcomed. This submission supports the Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) Bill 2023 (Cth) as a praiseworthy effort to defragment, consolidate, and modernise Australia’s tobacco control regime.
This article considers the strengths and limitations of the use of 3D printing and additive manufacturing for the production of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 public health crisis. It explores the role of the Maker Movement in addressing the shortfall in medical equipment during the public health pandemic. Taking a comparat...
International agreements on Intellectual Property (IP) have proven to be a good example to study global lawmaking. Beginning by looking at the 1990s Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement and into the negotiation and implementation of regional and national trade agreements, this article reflects on the intricate relationship b...
Published in Organization, Technology and Management in Construction: an International Journal
Digital design and modelling for construction assets was an important step towards improving the construction process overall by improving its efficiency and productivity, reducing the time needed for design editing and rework. However, digital forms of designs are prone to cyber threats and misuse by unauthorised authors. This is a common problem ...
Published in Economics
The current policy vision for Europe’s digital future centres around facilitating the availability of data by means of data access, sharing, and portability rights. In the existing legal framework, such rights are already foreseen in different legal instruments. In actual practice, however, (horizontal) data sharing is governed in the first place b...
Published in The Electrochemical Society Interface
For large-scale energy storage, flow batteries present many advantages. These benefits include, but are not limited to, decoupling power rating from energy capacity and projected lower cost energy storage and long cycle life. Several reviews and a comprehensive handbook have come available recently describing the various flow battery chemistries an...
Published in The Electrochemical Society Interface
The question: is Commercialization of Intellectual Property Feasible in an Academic Environment. There are many factors, unique and disparate between Academia and Commercialization and Licensing. There are substantial misalignments of the objectives. A fundamental idea inaugurated in an academic lab follows a complex path to commercialization. Alon...
Context: When software is released publicly, it is common to include with it either the full text of the license or licenses under which it is published, or a detailed reference to them. Therefore public licenses, including FOSS (free, open source software) licenses, are usually publicly available in source code repositories.Objective: To compile a...
In this paper, I consider the construction of patents as social practices. The goal is to observe patents in action, that is, to catch patents in the act of becoming patents. This method of “following the action” is well established in the sociology of science. Similar consideration of the artifices by which a new patent is staged reveals parallels...
The Australian Senate has established ‘an inquiry into greenwashing, particularly claims made by companies, the impact of these claims on consumers, regulatory examples, advertising standards, and legislative options to protect consumers.’ The terms of reference observe that the inquiry on greenwashing will focus on (a) the environmental and sustai...
