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A significant amount of our time was spent meeting with experts, allowing us to gain a more holistic understanding of our project. This journal allowed us to keep track of all of the information we learnt in each of our meetings, and communicate this information with the team. These meetings were crucial to the development of our project, and we wish to share them with the iGEM community.

Alexandra George α

Senior Lecturer (Intellectual Property)

University of New South Wales:

Dr Alexandra George is a senior lecturer in intellectual property (IP) at the University of New South Wales, specialising in international intellectual property, and the philosophy of intellectual property law. Alexandra provided information and support for our team in deciphering Australian patent law, and explained the intersection of the different jurisdictions in which patents may be granted.

Alexandra also commented on a suggestion from the Pasteur Paris iGEM team that a specialty ‘scientific court’ or ‘IP court’, like the Parisian High Court, could be helpful in ensuring that judges approach cases with a correct understanding of the underlying scientific principles. She informed us that the Federal Court of Australia already has an intellectual property ‘National Practice Area’ (NPA), which means IP cases tend to be heard by judges with expertise in this area – although even specialist courts won’t necessarily have expertise in every possible patentable area, and so make heavy use of expert evidence.

Finally, Alexandra told us about some of the differences between intellectual property law in civil and common law jurisdictions, comparing the examples of Australia and France. In Australia, as common law judges tend to come from the Bar, they have often been leading practitioners in IP before they come to sit as judges in this NPA. Whereas in civil law countries like France, judges don’t tend to have practiced IP law previously. Civil law judges also have a more inquisitorial and investigative role, whereas the Australian adversarial system encourages evidence to be given in a manner accessible for judges to make findings of fact to which they can then apply the law. This conversation with Alexandria allowed us to deepen our understanding of Australian patent law which help shaped the legal and regulation component of our project.

Dr. Brad Walsh

Chief Executive Officer

Minomic ™

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Lan Le

University of New South Wales - Research Ethics & Compliance Support

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Lawrence Lee

University of New South Wales - Synthetic Biology Professor

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Lotte

PlantBank - Science Facilities Manager

Lotte is the facilities manager for PlantBank and has 23 years of experience working with tissue culture.

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Paul Groundwater

University of Sydney - Pharmacy

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