Natalie Stoianoff

Professor
Director of the Industrial Property Program

BSc, LLB, MAppSc (UNSW), FTIA

 

Academic Profile

Natalie Stoianoff is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney, and the Director of the Master of Industrial Property Program.

Her interdisciplinary research is concerned with the legal, ethical and commercial aspects of biotechnology. In particular, Natalie's research interests range from the Patenting of Living Organisms, Technology Transfer and Environmental Taxation. 

Natalie is a co-author of the Federation Press publication, Intellectual Property Law: Text and Essential Cases, adopted by several Australian universities and now in its third edition. She has been the author of numerous Patent Law Bulletins, for the publication, Lahore's Patents, Trade Marks & Related Rights Reporter, published by Butterworths, and has edited the multidisciplinary book, Accessing Biological Resources, Complying with the Convention on Biological Diversity, published in 2004 by Kluwer's International Environmental Law & Policy Series.

Natalie has been the recipient of a number of research fellowships including at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Taxation Law, Munich, and the Inaugural Professor Anastasios Dontas Travelling Fellowship for her paper on the regulation of genetic technologies in medicine at the Greek/Australian International Legal & Medical Conference, June 2001, Corfu. She is a regular participant in the annual Global Environmental Taxation conference series publishing on the impact of taxation concessions for mine site rehabilitation and conservation covenants.

A graduate from the University of NSW with a BSc and LLB, Natalie was admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW in 1987 and has practiced as a solicitor with two major Australian commercial law firms before commencing her own specialised practice in the field of Intellectual Property Law and Commercial Law. In 1990, Natalie also completed a Master of Applied Science (Biotechnology) from the University of NSW, comprising coursework and a research thesis considering government incentives for research and development in biotechnology. For many years she was a Business Editor for the Australasian Biotechnology Journal contributing a regular legal column, 'Legal Notes', relevant to the industry. More recently she was a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy, and is currently a member of the editorial boards of the Macquarie Journal of Business Law and the Journal of the Australasian Tax Teachers' Association. Natalie was the primary editor of the first issue of the Journal of the Australasian Tax Teachers' Association, published on-line in December 2005.

Natalie is a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia, was a Founding Director of the Australian Institute of Health, Law and Ethics, and has been a member of the New South Wales Committee of the Licensing Executives Society, and the Patents and Licensing Working Party of the Australian Biotechnology Association. In addition, Natalie has contributed to economic policy development in Australia as a member of the Taxation Policy Committee and the Economic Affairs Standing Committee of the New South Wales State Chamber of Commerce and has been a member of the New South Wales Board of the Australia China Business Council for 7 terms and is currently a Vice President.

Current Research Activities

As a joint recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, Professor Natalie Stoianoff is currently investigating Intellectual Property enforcement and awareness building in the People's Republic of China.

Recent Publications

Monographs

R. Reynolds, & N.P. Stoianoff, Intellectual Property Law: text and essential cases, (3nd Ed) Federation Press, Sydney, February 2008, 642 pages.

R. Reynolds, & N.P. Stoianoff, Intellectual Property Law: text and essential cases, (2nd Ed) Federation Press, Sydney, February 2005, 642 pages.

N.P. Stoianoff (Ed), Accessing Biological Resources: Complying with the Convention for Biological Diversity, Environmental Law Series, Kluwer Law International 2004, 270 pages.

R. Reynolds & N.P. Stoianoff, Intellectual Property Law: text and essential cases, Federation Press, Sydney, February 2003, 552 pages.

Chapters

N.P. Stoianoff, The recognition of traditional knowledge under Australian biodiscovery regimes - Why bother with intellectual property rights?,in Antons, C. (ed), Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural Expressions and Intellectual Property Law in the Asia-Pacific Region, Kluwer Law International (accepted 3 December 2007) in press.

M.A. Kaidonis & N.P. Stoianoff, Legislation, Citizens' Rights, and the Self-Determination of a Developing Country: A Papua New Guinean Case Study, IUCN, Cambridge University Press (accepted 5 March 2007) in press.

N.P. Stoianoff & A.H. Kelly, Conserving Native Vegetation on Private Land: Subsidising Sustainable Use of Biodiversity?, in Deketelaere, K. et al, Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation: Volume IV, Oxford University Press (2007), pp 299-315.

N.P. Stoianoff, M.A. Kaidonis, L. House, Do Tax Concessions for Mining Site Rehabilitation Work? Evaluating 10 Years of Reform, in Cavaliere, A. et al (eds), Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation: Volume III, Richmond Law & Tax Limited (2006), pp 513 - 525.

A.H. Kelly & N.P. Stoianoff, Biodiversity Conservation and Local Government Taxes in Australia, in Cavaliere, A. et al (eds), Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation: Volume III, Richmond Law & Tax Limited (2006), pp 537 - 556.

N.P. Stoianoff, An International Perspective On the Implementation of the Biodiversity Treaty and Access to Biological Resources, Chapter 3 in N.P. Stoianoff (Ed), Accessing Biological Resources: Complying with the Convention for Biological Diversity, Environmental Law Series, Kluwer Law International (2004), pp 33-54.

N.P. Stoianoff & T. Fox, Managing Access to Australia's Biological Resources: Issues in Developing a National Approach, Chapter 6 in N.P. Stoianoff, Accessing Biological Resources: Complying with the Convention for Biological Diversity, Environmental Law Series, Kluwer Law International (2004), 91-114.

N.P. Stoianoff, Biological resources and Benefit Sharing: The Intersection Between Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual property, Chapter 3 in Verma, S.K. & Mittel, R., (Eds), Intellectual Property Rights - A Global Vision, Indian Law Institute (2004), 37- 48.

N.P. Stoianoff & M.A. Kaidonis, Rehabilitation of Mining Sites: Tax, Accounting and Serving the Environment,Chapter 15 in Milne, J. et al (eds), Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation: Volume I: International and Comparative Perspectives, Richmond Law & Tax Limited (2003), 241-253.

Refereed Journal Aaticles

N.P. Stoianoff, Convergence, Coercion and Counterfeiting, Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement in the People's Republic of China,Macquarie Journal of Business Law, (2007) Vol. 4, 245 - 265.

L. Mauger & N.P. Stoianoff, Protecting Australia's Trade Mark Interests through the Australia-China Free Trade Agreement, [2006] LAWASIA Journal, 125-162.

N.P. Stoianoff & M.A. Kaidonis, Rehabilitation of Mining Sites: Do Taxation and Accounting Systems Legitimize the Privileged or Serve Community Interests?, Journal of Critical Perspectives on Accounting 16 (2005) 47-59.

Y. Lin & N.P. Stoianoff, Foreign Investment in China: The Cross Cultural Dilemma, Macquarie Journal of Business Law, Vol. 1 (2004), 1 Ð 21.

Refereed Conference Papers

J.M. Marychurch & N.P. Stoianoff, Blurring the Lines of Environmental Responsibility: How Corporate and Public Governance was Circumvented in the Ok Tedi Mining Limited Disaster, in Legal Knowledge: Learning, Communicating and Doing, 4-7 July 2006, Australasian Law Teachers Association (ALTA) Secretariat: Lindfield, Australia (2006) (22 pages) 
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K. Mohannak, B. Bernstein, & N.P. Stoianoff,  'Institutional Linkages and Commercialisation in Australian Biotechnology Industry: A Case Study of NSW Cluster, People First - Serving Our Stakeholders, http://wn, (2004), 1-16.

M.A. Kaidonis, & N.P. Stoianoff, Corporate and State Mining Legitimated: Tranferring Future Economic Benefits or Passing the Buck?. In L. Parker & L. Meng (Eds.), APIRA 2004 Conference Programme and Abstracts Book (pp. 1-14). Singapore & http://www.accountancy.smu.edu.sg/Apira/collectionofpapers.html: Singapore Management University (2004).

Other Publications

N.P. Stoianoff, An Institutional Analysis of Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement in China, Australian Intellectual Property Academics Conference, University of Victoria, Wellington NZ, 25 - 26 January 2008.

N.P. Stoianoff & M.A. Kaidonis, Environmental Fiscal Instruments and the Development of the Environmental Management Services Industry in Australia,Eighth Annual Global Conference on Environmental Tax, Munich, Germany, 18-20 October 2007.

N.P. Stoianoff, Economic Incentives for Ecological Gifts: A comparison of conservation covenant incentives in Australia and Canada, 19th Annual Australasian Tax Teachers Association Conference, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, 22-24 January 2007.

N.P. Stoianoff, China and the Protection of Intellectual Property, in China: The New Legal Scene: Opportunities and Risks, Centre for Continuing Legal Eduation: www.cle.unsw.edu.au/papers/PaperTopics.asp?ID=148, (2006), 1-12.

N.P. Stoianoff, Convergent Law, Divergent Behaviour: The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in the People's Republic of China, in The 3rd ASLI Conference, The Development of Law in Asia: Convergence versus Divergence?, East China University of Politics and Law, Shanghai, China, (2006) 967-972.

A.H. Kelly & N.P. Stoianoff, An Environmentally Unfriendly Local Property Tax: Differential Rating on Rural Land Seventh Annual Global Conference on Environmental Tax: Instruments of Change from a Sustainable Economy, Ottawa Canada, 22-24 October 2006.

M.A. Kaidonis & N.P. Stoianoff, Legislation, CitizensÕ Rights and the Self Determination of a Developing Country: A Case Study, IUCN Academy of Environmental Law 2006 Colloquium, Implementing Environmental Legislation: The Critical Role of Enforcement and Compliance, Pace University School of Law in White Plains, New York, October 16-20, 2006.

N.P. Stoianoff & A.H. Kelly, Differential Rating on Rural Land: an Impediment to Biodiversity Conservation, UNSW ATAX Seminar Series, 13 October 2006.

N.P. Stoianoff, The Problem of Intellectual Property Enforcement in China: a cultural issue or just a stage in the making of a new Superpower?,UNSW School of Law Seminar Series, 12 September 2006.

N.P. Stoianoff & A.H. Kelly, Conserving Native Vegetation on Private Land: Subsidising Sustainable Use of Biodiversity?,Sixth Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation Issues, September 22-24, 2005, Catholic University, Leuven, 13 pages.

N.P. Stoianoff, Biotechnology Patents: the effect of the House of Lords decision in Kiren-Amgen Inc v. Hoecsht Marion Roussel Limited, seminar presentation at QMIPRI, London University, 6 May, 2005.

N.P. Stoianoff, Intellectual Property Law in China, 2005 Australian Intellectual Property Academics Conference, University of Tasmania, 28 - 29 January 2005.

N.P. Stoianoff & M.A. Kaidonis, The Tax Treatment of Mining Site Rehabilitation: Evaluating 10 Years of Reform, 16th Australasian Tax Teachers Association Conference, Tax Reform: Fairer, Efficient, Simple Tax? January 2004, Adelaide.

N.P. Stoianoff, Biological Resources and Benefit Sharing Ð the intersection between Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property, ATRIP Congress 2003, 4-6 Aug, Tokyo.

M.A. Kaidonis & N.P. Stoianoff, The Polluter pays Principle and Rehabilitation of Mining Sites: Facing Responsibilities or transferring the cost?, Fourth Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation Issues, Experience and Potential, June 5-7, 2003, Sydney,12 pages.

Recent Professional Activities & Memberships

Vice President, Australia China Business Council, NSW Branch (2008)

Nominated in 2006 to the Specialist Group for Enforcement and Compliance, Commission on Environmental Law, IUCN (The World Conservation Union) the largest and most important conservation network in the world.

Chairperson of the Australian Government (IP Australia) and State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO) briefing on Protecting and Enforcing Your Intellectual Property in China, Sydney, 2 August 2005.

Nominated as 'expert of international standing' by ARC College of Experts (since 2005).

Founding member, Editorial Board, Journal of the Australasian Tax Teachers Association.

Convenor, Intellectual Property Law Interest Group, Australasian Law Teachers Association (2004-2007).

Member, Editorial Board, Macquarie Journal of Business Law (since 2003).

ARC Discovery & Linkage Grant Australian Assessor (2002-2004).

Visiting Scholar, Centre for Advanced Study and Research on Intellectual Property, University Of Washington (2001).

ATRIP, International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property, member since 2001.

Chairperson, Taxation Policy Sub-Committee, State Chamber of Commerce, NSW (2001-2003).

Chairperson, R&D and Innovation Policy Sub-Committee State Chamber of Commerce, NSW (2001-2003)

Executive Member, Board of the Australia China Business Council, NSW Branch (2000-2007)