Ann Monotti

Dr Ann Monotti is the author of several major works relating to intellectual property law. She wrote Universities and Intellectual Property: Ownership and Exploitation (with Sam Ricketson), and is a co-author of the two editions of Australian Intellectual Property Law, published by Cambridge University Press. Her co-edited book Business Innovation and the Law: Perspectives from Intellectual Property, Labour, Competition and Corporate Law was published in 2013. She has been a chief investigator on a number of significant ARC research grant projects that focused upon issues concerning universities and their ownership and exploitation of intellectual property, including access to tangible research materials in biomedical research. Her most recent project is funded by an ARC Discovery Grant awarded in 2013: Designing World Class Venture Capital Programs to Support Commercialisation of Australian Research. Dr Ann Monotti is the Head of the Faculty's Commercial Law Group, Leader of the Intellectual Property and Innovation Law and Policy program within that Group, and Chair of both the Intellectual Property Advisory Board and the Commercial Law Advisory Board for postgraduate programs. She was Associate Dean (Postgraduate Studies) from 2006 to 2011 and Associate Dean (Research) in 2004. She is a member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Law Council of Australia.