Julia Powles

St John's College

The inventive concept and the structure of patent law

My research is about concepts of invention and inventiveness in patent law.  My focus is doctrinal and comparative and analyses how common elements of the internationalised structure of patent law are applied in different jurisdictions.

Start Date: 2011/04.

End Date: 2014/04.

Education

• Bachelor of Civil Law (master's degree), University of Oxford (2009)
• Bachelor of Law (Hons), University of Western Australia (2006)
• Bachelor of Science (Hons), Australian National University (2004)

Professional qualifications

• Admitted to practice in New South Wales and the High Court of Australia (2008)

Professional experience

• Speechwriter for the Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization (2010-11)
• Graduate Lawyer, Minter Ellison Lawyers (2008)
• Sessional Lecturer, University of New South Wales (2008)
• Judicial Associate, Administrative Appeals Tribunal and Federal Court of Australia (2007-08)

Intellectual property, law and technology, property theory, administrative law

Professor Lionel Bently and Dr Kathy Liddell (currently on maternity leave)