Mr Paul Sugden - Researcher Profile

Paul Sugden

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Department of Business Law and Taxation
Monash University, Berwick

Contact Details

Tel: +61 3 990 47080

Email: Paul.Sugden@monash.edu


Biography

Paul Sugden is a lecturer in the Department of Business Law and Taxation.

He completed a BA (majoring in economics and history), an LLB (Qld), and an LLM, in intellectual property law and comparative anti-trust law, at the University of London.

Paul was a solicitor for 14 years practicing in the field of commercial law and specialising in intellectual property and corporate restructuring with international and specialist law firms. He also worked at University of Queensland, teaching law.

He is an honorary solicitor to Australian Textile Fibre Forum Ltd on intellectual property issues for the use of artistic works. He also and advises VACC on intellectual property issues in the motor industry. Paul was the Queensland Chairperson of the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc. for six years,
He won a Victorian Government tender for development of the Workshop Module in Entrepreneurship on Intellectual Property Laws. This course is an initiative of the Victorian Government to focus on the skills and knowledge required by entrepreneurs to develop their ideas into a business. The course is to be presented in five separate workshop modules focusing on the accounting, marketing and legal environments of innovation from the idea to business.

Paul currently enrolled in a PhD at Monash, examining remedies in intellectual property law. He has written articles for refereed and professional journals in this area. He has also written articles on the topics of areas of credit law and business law.
 
His field of research examines the relevance and effects of intellectual property law on business organisations and information technology.

Qualifications

GRADUATE GERTIFICATE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 2005
LAWS,
Institution: Queen Mary College, London University
Year awarded: 1988
LAWS
Institution: The University of Queensland
Year awarded: 1984
ARTS (MAJORING IN HISTORY & ECONOMICS)
Institution: The University of Queensland
Year awarded: 1982

Publications

Book Chapters

Sugden, P.T., 2003, Copyright, in Electronic Commerce and the Law, eds Sharon Nevile, John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd, Milton Qld Australia, pp. 179-219.

Sugden, P.T., 2003, Further intellectual property issues, in Electronic Commerce and the Law, eds Sharon Nevile, John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd, Milton Qld Australia, pp. 261-296.

Sugden, P.T., 2003, Trade marks and domain names, in Electronic Commerce and the Law, eds Sharon Nevile, John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd, Milton Qld Australia, pp. 220-260.

Journal Articles

Sugden, P.T., 2012, Copyright the non-reaping sickle! Why doesn't the copyright account of profits remedy reap the architect his profit?, European Intellectual Property Review [P], vol 34, issue 3, Sweet & Maxwell Ltd, London UK, pp. 167-176.

Sugden, P.T., 2010, The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) - Why?, Copyright Reporter [P], vol 28, issue 2, Australian Copyright Council, Strawberry Hills NSW Australia, pp. 137-148.

Sugden, P.T., 2009, How long is a piece of string? The meaning of "commercial scale" in copyright piracy, European Intellectual Property Review [P], vol 31, issue 4, Sweet & Maxwell Ltd, UK, pp. 202-212.

Sugden, P.T., 2008, You can click but you can't hide: Copyright pirates and crime - The 'Drink or Die' prosecutions, European Intellectual Property Review, vol 30, issue 6, Sweet & Maxwell Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 222-231.

Conference Proceedings

Sugden, P.T., 2012, The failure of deterrence theory - Copyright pirates and crime!, International Conference: Current Problems in Legal Theory and in Comparative Law, 26 October 2012, Cordial Lex Editing House, Cluj-Napoca Romania, pp. 532-552.

Other

Sugden, P., 2007, Internet piracy and copyright debates, Encyclopedia of Information Ethics and Security, vol encyclopedia, Information Science Reference, United States, pp. 391-396.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The modification chip problem in the video game industry - A critical examination of the owner-user balance under the reformed Australian Copyright Act 1968 (Ckth.).
Supervisors:
Sugden, P (Main), Sweeney, B (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Srivastava, A.
Program of Study:
Is the pen mightier than the electronic signature? The Australian businesses' perspective. (PHD) 2008.
Supervisors:
Von Nessen, P (Main), Sugden, P (Associate).