Publications

Books in Print

  • LAW OF INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY IN HONG KONG – A Guide to Copyright, Trade Marks, Patents, Registered Designs and Other Protected Commercial Information, (1984) Butterworths, London. 536 pages. Foreword by Sir Denys Roberts, Chief Justice of Hong Kong.
  • INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA – A Guide to Patents, Trade Marks and Technology Transfer, (1986) Butterworths, 138 pages.
  • CHINESE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER LAW – With Professor Zheng Chengsi (Major Author), Law Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, PRC, (1987) Sweet & Maxwell, 331 pages.
  • COPYRIGHT LAW IN CHINA – With Professor Zheng Chengsi, Law Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, PRC, (1991) CCH International, 341 pages.
  • LAW OF INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY IN HONG KONG, 2nd Edition 1994, with Peter Garland QC & Jared Margolis – Loose leaf format – A Guide to Copyright, Trade Marks, Patents, Registered Designs and Other Protected Commercial Information, (1993) Butterworths, Singapore. Initially 1534 pages. Volume 2 added in 1995. Updated twice annually: Issues 1 (1994) to 12 (2002).
  • E-COMMERCE AND THE LAW, Michael D Pendleton (ed) (2000) THC Press, Butterworths
  • INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – a guide to the law in Hong Kong with reference to developments in China (with Alice Lee), Butterworths, 2001.
  • INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS –Hong Kong SAR and People’s Republic of China, 2003, Lexis Nexis Butterworths. Looseleaf, updated three times a year, two volumes. 5,826 pages. http://www.lexisnexis.com.sg/hk_shop/store/view_n.asp?isbn=04099966610
  • INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY in Hong Kong– a guide to the law in Hong Kong with reference to developments in China (with Alice Lee), Butterworths, 2008.
  • In Chinese Language, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, Law Press, Beijing, 2011

Published Reviews & Judicial Citations of M D Pendleton’s Books (not up to date)

Law of Intellectual And Industrial Property In Hong Kong

Reviews

  • Dr. S. Stewart LL.D. Q.C., July 1985, International and Comparative Law Quarterly,657.
  • A.G. Rogers Q.C., 1985, 11 European Intellectual Property Review, 336.
  • Vol. III No. 7 Software Protection, Law & Technology Press, 1 South China Morning Post, 16 September 1984.

Judicially considered in (not updated list):

  • Pfizer v Jiwa (1988) Reports of Patents Cases 15.
  • Phonographic Pacific (South East Asia) Ltd v California Restaurant Ltd (Court of Appeal) (1988) Hong Kong Law Reports 237.

First Reprint: 1988

Intellectual Property Law In The People’s Republic Of China

Reviews

  • Donald C. Clarke, 1986, 10 European Intellectual Property Review, 323.
  • (1986) Vol. 76 No. 5 The Trademark Reporter, 437.

Chinese Intellectual Property And Technology Transfer Law

Reviews

  • Michael Blakeney, 1988, 12 European Intellectual Property Review, 391.

Copyright Law In China

Reviews

  • Adolf Dietz, 1993, Vol 24 International Review of Industrial Property and Copyright Law 423 Max Planck Institute, Munich.
  • Yang Kai, 1993, 1 China Patents & Trademarks.

Looseleaf Book Updates

  • Intellectual Property Rights – Hong Kong SAR & PRC, Lexis Nexis Butterworths Updated every three months, 1994, Pendleton, Garland & Margolis.
  • Second Edition, 2005, Pendleton Margolis & Lee

The above book is sold in 2008 at HKD$25,000 and each update (three times per year) approximates HKD$3,000 (price varies with page content).

Sample Updates
  1. Issue 19, December 2005 (403 pages) – Intellectual Property Rights – Hong Kong SAR & PRC, Pendleton, Garland, & Margolis. Lexis Nexis Butterworths. My contribution 302 pages.
  2. Issue 20, July 2006 (243 pages) – Intellectual Property Rights – HK SAR & PRC, Lexis Nexis Butterworths. My contribution 153 pages.
  3. Issue 21, November 2006 (321 pages) – Intellectual Property Rights – HK SAR & PRC, Lexis Nexis Butterworths. My contribution 203 pages.
  4. Issue 22, December 2006 (198 pages) – Intellectual Property Rights – HK SAR & PRC, Lexis Nexis Butterworths. My contribution 101 pages.
  5. Issue 23, April 2007 (412 pages) – Intellectual Property Rights – HK SAR & PRC, Lexis Nexis Butterworths. My contribution 233 pages.
  6. Issue 24, July 2007 (303 pages) – Intellectual Property Rights – HK SAR & PRC, Lexis Nexis Butterworths. My contribution 229 pages.
  7. Issue 25, October 2007 (289 pages) – Intellectual Property Rights – HK SAR & PRC, Lexis Nexis Butterworths. My contribution 211 pages.
  8. LATEST Issue, May 2020

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  • Patent Law in Hong Kong in Digest of Commercial Laws of the World 1984, Oceana, Dobbs Ferry, New York.
  • Trade Mark Law in Hong Kong in Digest of Commercial Laws of the World 1984, Oceana, Dobbs Ferry, New York.
  • Patent Law & Practice, Trademark Law & Practice, Copyright Law & Practice, Trade Secrets Law & Practice, Common Law Protection, Passing off & Related Actions in Digest of Intellectual Property Laws of the World June 1992, Oceana Publications Inc, New York.
  • Intellectual Property Regimes of Selected Asia Pacific Jurisdictions in KCDM Wilde & M R Islam, International Transactions – Trade & Investment Law and Finance (1993) Law Book Company.
  • Web Links, Deep Links, Copyright & Conflict of Laws in E-COMMERCE AND THE LAW, Michael D Pendleton (ed) (2000) THC Press, Hong Kong SAR, China
  • China’s Accession to the World Trade Organisation –Trade and the Peace it Self it Assures is too Important for National Governments in Alex Gardner, China’s Entry to the World Trade Organisation – A New Era for Australia ChinaTrade (2000) UWA Press
  • Rejecting the Dominance of Empirical Legal Scholarship – a Better Way of Choosing, Researching and Writing a Scholarly Article in ‘Research Methods for Law’, Mike McConville, 2nd Ed, Edinburgh University Press (2016).
  • When Patents Mean Different Things in Different Jurisdictions, “Intellectual Property and Information Wealth’, Volume Two, Peter K Yu (ed) Praeger (2007).
  • Non-Empirical Discovery in Legal Scholarship – Choosing, Researching and Writing a Traditional Scholarly Article in ‘Research Methods for Law’, Mike McConville (ed), Edinburgh University Press (2007).
  • Repair and Reconditioning – Trademark Infringement in ‘Intellectual property and Spare Parts’, Anselm Kamperman-Sanders (ed), Hart Publishing, UK, 2009.
  • The Digital Divide, Information & Communications Technology Law, 2006, Routledge Press
  • Honest Copying – the Gist of Intellectual Property, in Law Lectures for Practitioners 2006, (2006) Hong Kong Law Journal Ltd.
  • Protection of Intellectual Property in Hong Kong Chinese Intellectual Property and Technology Laws, Rohan Kariyawasan, 2011, Edward Elgar, 162.

REFEREED LAW JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • Catnic-Signpost to Where?, 1982, 3 European Intellectual Property Review (EIPR), 79.
  • The Evolving law of Unfair Competition, 1982, Law Lecturers for Practitioners, Hong Kong Law Journal, 76.
  • Opposition to Trade Mark Applications and Foreign Trading Reputation in Hong Kong: Hong Kong Caterers Ltd v Maxims Ltd, 1984, European Intellectual Property Review 140.
  • The Protection of Foreign Company Trade Names and Trade Marks in Hong Kong, 1982, Vol. 3, No. 10 Business Law Review, 314 (Butterworths).
  • The Purposive Approach to Patent Construction: A Divergence in Anglo-Australian Judicial Interpretation, 1983, 14 Melbourne University Law Review, 75.
  • Construe Widely and Face Invalidity – Construe Narrowly and Miss Infringements, 2005, ICFAI Journal of intellectual Property Rights Vol. IV No. 3, p 58.
  • Balancing Competing Interests in Information Products; a Conceptual Rethink, 2005, Information & Communications Technology Law Vol. 14, No. 3, p 241, Routledge.
  • Change of the Watch, 2006, Australian Intellectual Property Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1, p10.
  • Sponsorship Rights and Passing Off Actions: Test Cases, 2007, Asia Law p10.
  • The Relevance of Chinese Intellectual Property to the Practitioner in Hong Kong, 1985, Law Lectures for Practitioners, Hong Kong Law Journal, 173.
  • Intellectual Property, Information Based Society and a New International Economic Order – the Policy Options?, 1985, 2 EIPR 31.
  • (Cited with approval by Gummow J, Federal Court of Aust. in Hogan v Pacific Dunlop Ltd (1989) 3 IPR 225 at 248 (Reply to article by Leslie Melville QC, [1985] EIPR).
  • Hong Kong: Colonial Intellectual Property Law Discourages Local Innovation and Design, 1989, 3 IP Asia 2.
  • Information Technology: Balancing Restrictions on Access to Information. Hong Kong and the PRC, 1989, 6 IP Asia 5.
  • The Quan Jui – Drama; The Beginning of an Awareness of Chinese Copyright Protection, with Zheng Chengsi, 1990, 8 Copyright World 40.
  • China’s First Court Decision on Copyright: Jiang v Qiao and the Film ‘Hospital Ward No. 16’ with Zheng Chengsi, 1990, European Intellectual Property Review 217.
  • Character Merchandising and the Proper Scope of Intellectual Property, 1990, Intellectual Property Journal 242.
  • Information-Based Society and the Challenges for Intellectual Property Law Reform in, 1990, Recent Developments in Intellectual Property, Law Society of Western Australia.
  • A Response to United States Government Criticisms of the Chinese Copyright Law with Zheng Chengsi, 1991, European Intellectual Property Review.
  • Chinese Copyright Law 1990 – Opportunities for Foreign Investors and for China, 1991, Current Development in Intellectual Property and Trade Practices p.30-35.
  • Possible Changes to Australian Trade Mark Law, 1991, Current Development in Intellectual Property and Trade Practices p.36-39.
  • Intellectual Property Regimes of Selected East Asian Jurisdictions, 1992, Policy Paper, Asia Research Centre.
  • Excising Consumer Protection – the Key to Trade Mark Law Reform, 1992, Australian Intellectual Property Journal 110.
  • The First Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China Zheng Chengsi (M D Pendleton editor), 1990, European Intellectual Property Review 34.
  • Commercial Exploitation of Intellectual Property Technology Park Trade Fair, Bently, 1992.
  • Protection for Supranational Trading Reputation in Australia, 1992, 3 IP&TP.
  • Chinese Intellectual Property – Some Global Implications for Legal Culture and National Sovereignty, 1993, 4 EIPR 119.
  • The Provision of Legal Services to China Hong Kong and Vietnam With L Towie & M Blakeney WA Dept of Commerce and Trade, 1995, Perth.
  • Ongoing China – United States Intellectual Property Negotiations – An Inside View with Zheng Chengsi, 1997, Vol 3 Issue 2 International Trade Law & Regulation Sweet & Maxwell London p52.
  • Reforming Copyright for the Digital Age – Everyone’s Horse on the Wrong Course, 1997, Vol 4 No 4 E Law Journal, Murdoch University.
  • Intellectual Property and the National Interest: What Developing Countries Can Learn from the Hong Kong Experience, 1998, European Intellectual Property Review Issue p 1.
  • Computer Programs, Internet Copyright & TRIPs Border Control, 1999, Vol 7 No 1 Asia Pacific Law Review 133
  • A New Human Right – The Right to Globalization, 1999, Book V Vol 22 Fordham International Law Journal p 223.
  • The Danger of Protecting Too Much – A Comparative Analysis of Aspects of Intellectual Property in Hong Kong Britain and the United States, 2000, EIPR 69
  • Websites, Links, Copyright & Conflict of Laws, 1999, Vol 7 No 2 Asia Pacific Law Review 229
  • Our Allegiance- Australians or Global Citizens, 1999, E Law Journal
  • A New Human Right – the Right Globalisation, 1999, Vol 22 No 5 Fordham an International Law a Journal p 2052.
  • Browsing, Caching, Downloading & Linking Web Sites: Copyright & Multi-Jurisdictional Dimensions with Andrew McRobert, 2000, Journal of Computers & the Law p. 1
  • Hong Kong’s Intellectual Property is of Far Wider Scope than Britain or the United States – Therin Lies a Danger, 1999, 8 Intellectual Property Studies p.33
  • Character Merchandising – Personality and Sponsorship Rights Strike a snag in Hong Kong, 1999, 10 EIPR 521
  • Intellectual Property Problems Faced by Contemporary World Information Industry, 2002, 12 Intellectual Property Studies p.121-191.
  • Challenging Law’s Traditional Refusal to Protect Information per se for Fear of Stifling Innovation, Competition and Access, 2002, 51 Intellectual Property Forum 32
  • National Allegiance & Armed Conflict – One Begets the Other, 2004, Martinus
  • Patent Interpretation, 2004, E Law Journal Forthcoming (accepted for publication)
  • Sponsorship Rights and Passing Off Actions: Test Cases, 2007, Asia Law p10.
  • The Digital Divide – International Enforcement of Digital Lockup in Journal of Information Law & Technology, Vol 1, 2006, ISSN: 1361-4169
  • Discouraging Local Innovation and Design Expertise in Hong Kong—Colonial Intellectual Property Law, in Design and Development in South and Southeast Asia, ed. R. Ghose (Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong, Center of Asian Studies, 1990), p. 371.

REPORTS OF LAW REFORM COMMISSION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

(Joint author and signed as Chairman or Commissioner)

  • Report on the Effect of Marriage or Divorce on Wills Project No.76 Part 11, December 1991.
  • Discussion on Limitation and Notice of Action Project No. 36 Part 11, February 1992.
  • Report on Evidence of Children and Other Vulnerable Witnesses Project No 87.
  • Discussion Paper on Professional Privilege Project 1992.
  • Report on Medical Treatment of the Dying Project No 1990.
  • Report on Police Act Report No 1992.
  • Report on Professional Privilege Project No 1993.

REPORTS OF COPYRIGHT LAW REVIEW COMMITTEE

Copyright & Contract

  • Discussion Paper 2001
  • Report 2002

Crown Copyright

  • Discussion Paper 2004

Current Developments in Intellectual Property and Trade Practices – a journal of the national law firm Blake dawson Waldron Issues as Sole National Editor

  • March 1991 Issue
  • May 1991 Issue
  • June 1991 Issue
  • August 1991 Issue
  • October 1991 Issue
  • December 1991 Issue
  • January 1992 Issue
  • March 1992 Issue
  • May 1992 Issue

DOMAIN NAME DISPUTES I HAVE DECIDED FOR THE WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANISATION (WIPO) (GENEVA)

NON-REFEREED ARTICLES

  • Anton Piller Order in Hong Kong with P.D. Sinden, 1982, 2 EIPR 5O.
  • The Common Field of Activity Test and Merchandising Rights in Hong Kong, 1983, EIPR 76.
  • The Hong Kong Atari Cases: Copyright in Computer Software for Video Games, 1983, EIPR 132.
  • Hong Kong Focus, 1987, Computer Law and Security Report, 18.
  • Trade Secrets Keeping Company With Privacy, 1987, Vol II, 12 Trade Secret Law Reporter 191.
  • A Personal View of Democracy and Human Rights in Hong Kong, 1988, Hong Kong Law Journal.
  • Discouraging Innovation and Design Expertise in Hong Kong – Colonial Intellectual Property Law Chapter in Design & Development in South and South East Asia, 1990, Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong.
  • Application of the Trade Practices Act to Intellectual Property – The Trade Practices Commission Background Paper, July 1991, 1991, October Current Developments in Intellectual Property and Trade Practices 30.
  • Creating a Vocabulary and a Conceptual Ordering Device for Conferring Appropriate Rights in Information: the Challenge for Law in Proceedings of Fifth Round Table on Semiotics PENNSTATE, Roberta Kevelson, Editor.
  • ‘Sponsorship Rights and Passing Off Actions’ Asialaw, Vol. V, Issue 5, October 2007. Asia Law & Practice, Euromoney Ltd

EDITOR

  • Law Lectures For Practitioners 1985 Hong Kong Law Journal Ltd.
  • Murdoch University Law – Occasional Papers in 1990, 1991 and 1992 with Prof RL Simmonds, Murdoch University.
  • E Law Murdoch University Law School Electronic online Law Journal inaugural transmission 1994.
  • Intellectual Property Studies 1996-Wang Family Foundation San Francisco & Beijing.

MONOGRAPHS

  • Some Aspects of the Legal Regulation of Technology Transfer in Hong Kong, 1984, Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong.
  • China’s Intellectual Property Law, 1985, Chinese Law Programme, Series No. 2, Centre for Contemporary Asian Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  • Our Allegiance- Australians or Global Citizens, 1998, Inaugural Professorial Lecture ISBN 0-8905-653-0 (37 pages)

CASE COMMENTS

  • Copyright and Passing-off: Englishtown Sportswear Ltd v. Climax Ltd, 1982, 4 EIPR D92.
  • Passing-off: Gracious Industries Ltd v. Cheung Hop Garment Factory Ltd, 1982, 5 EIPR D114.
  • Copyright: WIK Electro Hausergate GMBH v. Yamada Electric (HK) Ltd, 1982, 12 HKLJ 74 with P.O. Sinden & 1982 EIPR D 182.
  • Registered Design and Passing-off: Cartier International v. National Ebauch Ltd & Stelux Manufacturing Co. v. Montres Rolex & Co., 1982, 9 EIPR D206.
  • Passing-off in Hong Kong: Kjeldsen & Co. v. Hong Kong Peggy Foods Co. Ltd, 1982, 11 EIPR D250.
  • Passing-off Secondary Meaning & Relevant Confusion: Commercial Trademark Services SA & Anor v. Liscaroll Co. Ltd trading as Commercial Investigation Services & Others, 1983, EIPR 286.
  • Confidential Information and Norwich Pharmocol Principles in Hong Kong: Tramways Ltd & Others v. Realty Development Corp. Ltd & Others, 1983, EIPR D197.
  • Restrictive Covenants: Robin M. Bridge v. Deacons, 1983, EIPR D216.
  • Copyright: Interlego v. Tyco, 1987, HKLJ 369.
  • PRC. A Copyright Case That Was Not, 1988, IP Asia 11.
  • Breach of Confidence: Li Yau-Wai v. Genesis Films Ltd, 1987 EIPR and 1987 HKLJ 362.
  • Trap Orders: Leader Radio v. X Ltd, 1988, IP Asia
  • Validity of Hong Kong Patents – Pfizer & Toyama v. Jiwa, 1988 HKLJ 133.
  • Proving Subsistence and Ownership of Copyright – Phonographic Performance (South East Asia) Ltd. v California Entertainments, 1989, HKLJ.
  • Passing Off: Polo Lauren v Surplusway, 1989, EIPR.
  • Misrepresentation s Arising from Dealings With Bank Branches – Adour Holdings Pty Ltd v Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 1992, 1 IP&TP 45.

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Peter Feng Intellectual Property in China in Hong Kong Law Journal, 1998, 28 Hong Kong Law Journal Part 1, 142.
  • Canadian Intellectual Property, 2001, Australian Journal of Political Science

CASES REPORTED IN LAW REPORTS

  • Linda Chih Ling Koo and Another v Tam Tai Hing, 1992, 23 Intellectual Property Reports 607.
  • Mattel Inc v Tonka Corporation, 1992, 23 Intellectual Property Reports 91.

PAPERS IN PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  • The Evolving Law of Unfair Competition. Paper delivered to the Law Lectures for Practitioners 1982, Hong Kong Law Journal, Hilton Hotel, 13 January, 1982.
  • Confidential Information: The Law Commission (UK) Proposals. Paper given at a Hong Kong Law Journal Seminar, 5 July 1982.
  • Some Aspects of the Legal Regulation of Technology Transfer in Hong Kong. Paper presented to the Centre for Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, 1983.
  • China’s Intellectual Property Law. Paper given to the Chinese University of Hong Kong Programme on Law and State Building in China, on 23 June 1984 at a meeting chaired by the Hon. Mr Justice T.L. Yang at Court No. 7, Supreme Court, Jackson Road, Hong Kong.
  • China’s New Patent Law. Paper delivered to 7th Annual Conference on law and State Building in China, Chinese University of Hong Kong, November 1984. Comments on this paper by Professor Rui Mui, Professor of Law, Beijing University, China.
  • Software Piracy in Asia: The Policy Aspects. Paper delivered to Protection of Computer Software Conference, ESC Ltd, Regent Hotel, November 1984.
  • The Relevance of Chinese Intellectual Property Law to the Practitioner in Hong Kong. Paper delivered to the Law Lectures for Practitioners 1985, Hong Kong Law Journal, Hilton Hotel, 9 January 1985.
  • Nullity of Patents: A Hong Kong Perspective. Paper delivered to the Twelfth International Congress of Comparative Law (Sydney/ Melbourne, Australia) 20 August 1986. Faculties of Law: University of Sydney, University of Melbourne.
  • Balancing Restrictions On and Rights of Access To Valuable and Communications Technology in Selected Asian Jurisdictions. Paper delivered at the Fifth Communication Forum of the Japan Society of Information and Communication Research, Tokyo, November 21 – 22, 1988.
  • Discouraging Innovation and Design Expertise in Hong Kong – Colonial Intellectual Property Law. Paper delivered to the Conference on Design & Development in South and South East Asia, organised by Swire School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic and the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, December 5th – 8th, 1988.
  • Intellectual Property as Information in an Information Based Society -Accommodating the Interests of Innovators Competitors and Consumers. Paper written for but not delivered as Australian representative at the cancelled Conference on Chinese Economic Law, Beijing 8-12 June, 1989 jointly organised by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and International Bar Association. (Speakers were to include a number of members of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. Cancelled due to tragic events in Tiannamen Square on 4-5 June.)
  • Goodwill Without a Trading Presence – New Directions in the Law of Passing-Off in Hong Kong, Paper presented to LAWASIA Conference, Hong Kong Exhibition Centre, 19 September 1989.
  • Information Based Society and the Challenges For Intellectual Property Law Reform. Paper published in Recent Developments in Intellectual Property, Law Society of Western Australia. ISBN 1 875204 423.
  • International Intellectual Property, a series of three days of lectures to the Chinese Patent, Trade Mark and Copyright Offices held at the World Trade Hotel Chang’an Avenue, Beijing, China.
  • Glad Consul and the Action for Breach of Confidence, a paper given to the Law Society of Western Australia Summer School, 1991.
  • Information based Society and the Challenges for Intellectual Property Law Reform, paper delivered for Law Society of Western Australia on 25 October 1990 at Hilton Perth.
  • With Zheng Chengsi, The Chinese Copyright Law Australian Copyright Society, Sydney 18 June 1991 and 27 June 1991, West Australian Chamber of Commerce.
  • Intellectual Property Law s of East and South East Asia, Asia Research Centre October 18, 1991.
  • Chinese Intellectual Property Updated LAWASIA 91, Hyatt Perth.
  • Excising Consumer Protection – the Key to Trade Mark Law Reform Industrial and Intellectual Property Society, Hilton Perth 11 December 1991.
  • Balancing Access to Badges of Consumer Recognition with the Prevention of Cashing in on Other’s Investments – the Dilemma of the Registrability of Trade Marks, Chairman W Gummow, Federal Court Judge, University of Sydney, Continuing Legal Education 1991, 12 November 1991.
  • As Chairman of Law Reform Commission of Western Australia officially launched Discussion Paper on Limitations of Action with Daryl Williams QC at Perth International Hotel on 27 February 1992.
  • Panel Member Institute of Patent Attorneys of Australia Annual Conference Hyatt Perth 26 March 1992.
  • Hong Kong’s Intellectual Property Asia Research Centre Symposium, Murdoch University, 1992.
  • Ownership of Intellectual Property – University or Academic Murdoch University, 1992.
  • Panel Member representing Law reform Commission of Western Australia at Goody Bio-Ethics centre, Glendalough Seminar on Consent to Sterlisalisation of Intellectually Disabled October 1992.
  • Discriminating in Favour of Foreigners – Hong Kong’s Approach to Intellectual Property 4 December 1992, 2nd Annual Intellectual Property Teacher’s Workshop, School of Law, Murdoch University.
  • Legal Regulation of Technology Transfer and the Environment – The Case Against National Sovereignty LAWASIA September 1993, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  • GATT -TRIPS and Recent Developments in International & Asian Intellectual Property with Prof Sam Ricketson 25 February 1994, 3rd Annual Intellectual Property Teacher’s Workshop, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne.
  • The Saga of Auto Desk v Dyason – Alternatives to Copyright Protection of Computer Source and Object Code, Screen Displays and ‘Look & Feel’. Paper presented to Malaysian Bar Council Conference on Protection of Computer Software, Equatorial Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, 20 August 1994.
  • Plant Varieties – The Australian Experience. Presentation to the Director and members of Trade Dept, Malaysian Government, Kuala Lumpur, 23 August, 1994.
  • GATT – TRIPS – and the Multinational Client Seminar to JD Class, Colombia University Law School, New York, 10 October, 1994.
  • Autodesk and the Computer Engineer, Australian Computer Society, The Vines, 16 June 1995, 1995.
  • The 1995 Trade Mark Act, Intellectual Property Society of Australia & New Zealand, Hyatt, Noosa 7-9 July 1995.
  • Scenarios on the 1995 Trade Mark Act, Intellectual property Society of Western Australia 9 October 1995.
  • Copyright & Sacred Music Archdiocese of Perth Seminar for Music Ministry, James Nestor Hall, Leederville, 11 October 1995.
  • Misappropriation Remedies – Rendering Intellectual Property Law Redundant? 5th Annual Intellectual Property Teachers Association, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, 4-6 February 1996.
  • Cross Jurisdictional Online Copyright Issues- the Latest Developments 21 October 1997 Central Park Function Centre IPSANZ.
  • The Internet & the Challenge to Intellectual Property Law City University of Hong Kong 4 March 1998.
  • US – China Stand Off on Intellectual Property City University of Hong Kong 26 Feb 1998.
  • Hong Kong & China’s Separate Intellectual Property Regimes City University of Hong Kong, 27 Feb 1998.
  • Intellectual Property and the Internet, December 1998, Asia Pacific Economic Law Forum, City University of Hong Kong.
  • Cyber Law and Conflict of Laws, Doing Business on the Internet, 17 March 1999, THC Conference, The Century Hotel, Hong Kong.
  • Browsing, Downloading, & Caching Web Sites- Copyright & Conflict of Laws, in Regulating E-Commerce 29 June 2000, Darling Harbour Conference & Exhibition Centre, Sydney.
  • Trade, China’s Accession to the World Trade Organisation and the Peace it Self Interestedly Asssures, Is Too Important to be Left to National Governments, China’s Entry to the WTO, 11 August, 2000 Parmelia Hilton, Perth.
  • Intellectual Property Problems Faced by Contemporary the World Information Industry in Facing the New Century: The International Seminar on Intellectual Property Protection in the Information Industry Field, Guangzhou, China, 13 August, 2001 (Guangdong Provincial Government).
  • Intellectual Property Laws Inability to Cope Generally, Not Merely with Web Based Works –Where to From Here 10th International World Wide Web Conference, Hong Kong Exhibition Centre, 4 May 2001.
  • Challenging Laws Traditional Refusal to Protect Information per se for Fear of Stifling Innovation, Competition and Access: an East Asian Perspective, Intellectual Property in an Asian Context: Challenges, Demands of the Information economy, National University of Singapore, 14 Sept, 2001.
  • Patents and Plant Breeder’s Rights in Panel 4, “Rights and Obligations” Wine Law for Non Lawyers, Wine Industry of Western Australia and Asia pacific Intellectual Property Law Institute 11 December, 2002.
  • National Allegiance & Armed Conflict – One Begets the Other in The Challenge of Conflict – International Law Responds, Adelaide, 26 February, (2004).
  • Forthcoming The Copyright Balance Keynote address Unlocking IP Conference, Baker & McKenzie Cyber Law Centre, University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law, 24 November, 2004.
  • Forthcoming Intellectual Property & the Public Domain, Paper Unlocking IP Conference, Baker & McKenzie Cyber Law Centre, University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law, 24 November, 2004.
  • Presentation on Purposive Analysis of Patents. Invited and organized by Justice Robert French at Federal Court Judges conference room, Perth. Sole presenter. June 2005.

    Same presentation as above given in Auckland (July 20, 2005) and Wellington (August, 2005) at invitation of Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ). ‘Digital Copyright’, Michigan State and University of Hong Kong, P1 conference, November, 2005.
  • ‘ISP Safe Harbours’ Presentation given to Deacons, lawyers invited clients in Sydney, Perth, and Melbourne in my capacity as Special Counsel to Deacons, Australia. June 2005.
  • ‘Copyright and the Insurance Industry’ invited to give paper to Chinese Government Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC), in Beijing June 2006.
  • Repair and Reconditioning – Trademark Infringement, 3rd Institute of European Studies, Macao (IEEM), (funded by University of Maastricht, 7 European Patent Office) IP Law school, 23 June.
  • Chinese Intellectual property Developments, 7th IEEM Intellectual Property Seminar, 19 23 June, 2006, Macao.
  • Honest Copying – the Gist of Intellectual Property, 2006 Law Lectures for Practitioners, Conrad Hotel. Hong Kong Law Journal Limited.
  • The Digital Divide 1& 2 February, 2006, London (Presented by DVD).
  • Intellectual Property Department Open Day 28 February, 2006.
  • Licensing Executives Society China, Hong Kong Sub-Chapter, Speaker, 22 May 2006, Wilkinson & Grist, Prince’s Building, central.
  • P2P and Copyright, American Chamber of Commerce, Club Lusitano, 2007.
  • Hong Kong’s Response to Online Infringement, ASTRI, Science Park, 2007.
  • IPR & Administrative Roles of Government and Enterprises & their Interactive Role Under the TRIPS Framework given on 20 October, 2007 at the Forum on IPR Protection & Administration Under the WTO, Tongi University, Shanghai.
  • The New Blue Sky IP Defences University of Hong Kong, ‘Roundtable on IP, Competition Law and the Media’, 11 January, 2008, University of Hong Kong, Convocation Room.

CONFERENCES ORGANISED

  • Australian Intellectual Property Teachers Association – Second annual conference, Murdoch University, Perth, 1993.
  • Master Class on Intellectual Property Aspects of Agricultural Bio-Technology, Crawford Fund, Australian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Murdoch, December 1999. Overall organiser and presenter of five papers.

INAUGURAL PROFESSORIAL LECTURE

  • ‘Our Allegiance, Australians or Global Citizens’, 1996, Kim Beazeley Theatre, Murdoch University

PUBLIC LECTURES

  • The WTO – Friend or Foe Chinese University of Hong Kong, Esther Lee Building, January 2006.