Rate My Professor Robert Burrell

Robert Burrell teaches and researches across all areas of intellectual property law. His research interests involve interdisciplinary collaborations, such as with historians of science and technology examining the role of public rewards as an alternative to the patent system during the Industrial Revolution, with psychologists testing trade mark law assumptions about consumer behavior, and with economists including a study for the German government on patent waivers. He teaches Trade Mark Law in the Melbourne JD program and Trade Marks and Unfair Competition in the Melbourne Law Masters program. Key publications include Copyright Exceptions: The Digital Impact (Cambridge University Press, 2005), co-authored with Allison Coleman, and Australian Trade Mark Law (LexisNexis, 3rd edition, 2024), co-authored with Michael Handler. His scholarship has been cited by the High Court of Australia, Federal Court of Australia, courts in New South Wales and Western Australia, Supreme Court of New Zealand, High Court of Singapore, Court of Appeal of England and Wales, and in an Opinion of an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice. In addition, Burrell has worked as a consultant to boutique Australian law firms, with substantial experience in litigation before the Australian Trade Marks Office.