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Professor Matthew Rimmer

Professor, Intellectual Property and Innovation
Faculty of Business & Law
School of Law
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Dr Matthew Rimmer is a Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation Law at the Faculty of Business and Law, at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He has published widely on copyright law and information technology, patent law and biotechnology, access to medicines, plain packaging of tobacco products, intellectual property and climate change, Indigenous Intellectual Property, and intellectual property and trade. He is undertaking research on intellectual property and 3D printing; the regulation of robotics and artificial intelligence; and intellectual property and public health (particularly looking at the coronavirus COVID-19). His work is archived at QUT ePrints, SSRN Abstracts, Bepress Selected Works, and Open Science Framework.

Rimmer is a chief investigator in the QUT Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society, and Technology (QUT BEST); and the QUT Australian Centre for Health Law Research (QUT ACHLR). He is a member of the QUT Centre for Justice, the QUT Centre for the Digital Economy; the QUT Digital Media Research Centre (QUT DMRC), and the QUT Centre for Clean Energy Technologies and Processes. Rimmer is a chief investigator, and co-director of the legal program in the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame (CREATE) (2020-2025) - a transnational research network. Rimmer was previously the leader of the QUT Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Research Program from 2015-2020 (QUT IPIL).

Dr Matthew Rimmer holds a BA (Hons) and a University Medal in literature (1995), and a LLB (Hons) (1997) from the Australian National University. He received a PhD in law from the University of New South Wales for his dissertation on The Pirate Bazaar: The Social Life of Copyright Law (1998-2001). Dr Matthew Rimmer was a lecturer, senior lecturer, and an associate professor at the ANU College of Law, and a research fellow and an associate director of the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture (ACIPA) (2001 to 2015). He was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, working on Intellectual Property and Climate Change from 2011 to 2015. He was a member of the ANU Climate Change Institute.

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Publications

Author publications, as listed on QUT ePrints http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Rimmer,_Matthew.html

Research areas

DMRC
ACTA
CHAFTA
IPIL
Law
Traditional Knowledge and Indigenous Intellectual Property
TPP
Intellectual Property: Copyright
Trademark Law
RCEP (QUT ILGG )
ACHLR
Digital Copyright and Information Technology Law
Intellectual Property
ILGG
Innovation Law
Renewable Energy
JAEPA
Access to Essential Medicines
Intellectual Property and 3D Printing
and Climate Change
AUSFTA
ISDS
and the Maker Movement
Patent Law
Trade Secrets
International Trade WTO
Designs
Media and Communications Law
KAFTA
Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products and Tobacco Control
TTIP
Clean Technologies
Gene Patents and Biotechnology Regulation
TISA
Remix Culture
PBR

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Contacts

Name: Professor Matthew Rimmer
Phone: +61731381599

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Date record created:
2015-07-09T01:31:22
Date record modified:
2022-04-20T15:43:56
Record status:
Published - Open Access