Andrew Christie

Andrew F. Christie is the Davies Collison Cave Professor of Intellectual Property at the University of Melbourne Law School. He is also the founding Director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA), a national centre for interdisciplinary research on the law, economics and management of intellectual property, based at the University of Melbourne.

Professor Christie has Bachelors degrees in Science and in Law from the University of Melbourne, an LLM from the University of London, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is admitted to legal practice in Australia and the United Kingdom, and worked for many years in the intellectual property departments of law firms in Melbourne and London. He is a former Fulbright Senior Scholar, and has held appointments at the University of Cambridge, Duke University and the University of Toronto.

As an academic intellectual property lawyer, Professor Christie has particular expertise in the application of copyright law, patent law and trade mark law to the digital environment, and in the application of patent law to biotechnology. A few of his most recent articles are: "Reach-through Patent Claims in Biotechnology: An Analysis of the Examination Practices of the United States, European and Japanese Patent Offices" (co-authored with Amanda Lim), forthcoming in [2005] Intellectual Property Quarterly; "The New Right of Communication in Australia" (co-authored with Eloise Dias), (2005) 27(2) Sydney Law Review 237-262; "Principle or Compromise?: Understanding the Original Thinking behind Statutory Licence and Levy Schemes for Private Copying" (co-authored with Katerina Gaita), [2004] 4 Intellectual Property Quarterly 422-447; and "The ICANN Domain-Name Dispute Resolution System as a Model for Resolving other Intellectual Property Disputes on the Internet", [2002] 1 The Journal of World Intellectual Property 105-117.

Professor Christie is a member of the Editorial/Advisory/Scientific Boards of International Journal of Information Policy and Law (Geneva), Cyberspazio e Diritto - Cyberspace and Law (Modena), and Digital Technology Law Journal (Perth, Australia). He is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge. Professor Christie is an active adviser to Australian governments on intellectual property law and policy, including as a past member of the Copyright Law Review Committee and as a current member of the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property.