Publications: Dent, Chris

Journal Article

Dent, C. (2018) New insights in patent history: an application of evolutionary theory. Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 8 (3). pp. 171-190.

Dent, C. and Haigh, Y. (2018) Oligopolist Speech and the Public Interest in Pharmaceutical Patent Law Reform. Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société, 33 (1). pp. 1-20.

Brown, M. and Dent, C. (2018) Privacy concerns over employer access to employee social media. Monash University Law Review, 43 (3). pp. 796-827.

Dent, C. (2018) Taking the Human Out of the Regulation of Road Behaviour. Sydney Law Review, 40 (1). pp. 39-62.

Dent, C. (2017) The ‘Reasonable Man’, his Nineteenth-century ‘Siblings’, and their Legacy. Journal of Law and Society, 44 (3). pp. 406-432.

Dent, C. (2017) Religion and the Early Modern Patent System, 1560–1660. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 6 (3). pp. 580-599.

Dent, C. (2016) Decisions around innovation and the motivators that contribute to them: patents, copyright, trade marks and know-how. Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 6 (4). pp. 435-453.

Dent, C. (2016) Nineteenth century patent law and classical economics: patents as exchangeable sites of value. Intellectual Property Quarterly (2). pp. 103-116.

Dent, C. (2015) Compensation and/or correcting the record: A framework for the regulation of (defamatory) speech. Media and Arts Law Review, 16 . pp. 123-143.

Dent, C. (2015) Confusion in a legal regime built on deception: the case of trade marks. Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 5 (1). pp. 2-27.

Dent, C. (2015) The possibilities of a regulatory approach to answer the question: Should genetic inventions be patentable? SSRN Electronic Journal, 22 . pp. 16-31.

Dent, C. (2014) Legal academics, our creativity and why we do it: insights from Foucault. The Law Teacher, 48 (3). pp. 228-247.

Dent, C. (2014) Registers of artefacts of creation—from the late Medieval Period to the 19th Century. Laws, 3 (2). pp. 239-281.

Dent, C. (2014) Unpacking post-employment restraint of trade decisions: the motivators of the key players. Bond Law Review, 26 (1). pp. 1-26.

Derrick, G.E., Christie, A.F., Dent, C., McIntyre, P., Wilson, L. and Studdert, D.M. (2013) Patents associated with high-cost drugs in Australia. PLoS ONE, 8 (4). e60812.

Dent, C. (2013) (Potential) regulatory function of contractural clauses : restraints of trade and confidential information in employment contracts. Australian Journal of Labour Law, 26 (1). pp. 1-19.

Arup, C.J., Dent, C., Howe, J. and van Caenegem, W. (2013) Restraints of trade: The legal practice. UNSW Law Journal, 36 (1).

Dent, C. (2013) Stepping back from the property line: a perspective from regulatory theory. Journal of Law and Medicine, 21 (2). pp. 330-334.

Dent, C. (2013) A regulatory perspective on the interests and motivators of creative individuals. Asia Pacific Media Educator, 23 (2). pp. 265-280.

Dent, C. (2012) Negotiating control of artefacts of creation - intellectual property, know-how, confidential information and contracts. International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 43 (3). pp. 248-266.

Dent, C. (2012) Relationships between laws, norms and practices: the case of road behaviour. Griffith Law Review, 21 (3). pp. 708-727.

Dent, C. (2011) 'Gray, meticulous and patently documentary': Foucaultian historical methods and the patent system. Journal of Sociology, 47 (3). pp. 297-312.

Weatherall, K., Rotstein, F., Dent, C. and Christie, A. (2011) Patent oppositions in Australia: The Facts. UNSW Law Journal, 34 (1). pp. 93-135.

Dent, C. (2011) The TRIPS agreement and an experimental use exception for ‘research tools’. Australian Economic Review, 44 (1). pp. 73-78.

Dent, C. (2010) Legal incentives to promote innovation at work: a critical analysis. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 21 (2). pp. 27-50.

Christie, A.F. and Dent, C. (2010) Non-Overlapping rights: A patent misconception. European Intellectual Property Review, 32 (2).

Dent, C. (2010) Opposing what? Nature, purposes and questions of reform of the opposition decision in the patent system. Flinders Law Journal, 12 (2). pp. 1-39.

Dent, C. (2009) Copyright as (Decentred) regulation: Digital piracy as a case study. Monash University Law Review, 35 (2). pp. 348-375.

Dent, C. (2009) Copyright, governmentality and problematisation: an exploration. Griffith Law Review, 18 (1). pp. 129-150.

Dent, C. (2009) 'Generally inconvenient': the 1624 statue of monopolies as political compromise. Melbourne University Law Review, 33 (2). pp. 415-453.

Dent, C. (2009) Not all practices are equal: an exploration of discourses, governmentality and scale-free networks. Social Semiotics, 19 (3). pp. 345-361.

Hall, E., Dent, C. and Christie, A.F. (2009) Patent attorney privilege in Australia: Options for reform. Australian Intellectual Property Journal, 20 . pp. 178-193.

Rotstein, F. and Dent, C. (2009) Third-Party Patent Challenges in Europe, the United States and Australia: A Comparative Analysis. The Journal of World Intellectual Property, 12 (5). pp. 467-500.

Dent, C., Hall, E. and Christie, A. (2008) For the health of the economy and patent system: Rationale and scope of patent attorney privilege. Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 4 (1). pp. 23-32.

Dent, C. (2008) `Journalists are the confessors of the public', says one Foucaultian. Journalism, 9 (2). pp. 200-219.

Dent, C. (2008) Patents as administrative acts: Patent decisions for administrative review. Sydney Law Review, 30 (4). pp. 691-714.

Dent, C. and Cook, I. (2007) Stare Decisis, Repetition and understanding common law. Griffith Law Review, 16 (1). pp. 131-150.

Dent, C. and Weatherall, K. (2006) Lawyers' decisions in Australian patent disupte settlements: An empirical perspective. Australian Intellectual Property Journal, 17 (4). pp. 255-276.

Dent, C. (2006) Patent policy in early modern England: Jobs, trade and regulation. Legal History, 10 (1-2). pp. 71-95.

Dent, C. (2005) ‘The Privileged Few’ and the Classification of Henwood v Harrison. Griffith Law Review, 14 (1). pp. 34-60.

Dent, C. and Kenyon, A.T. (2004) Defamation law's chilling effect: A comparative content analysis of Australian and US newspapers. Media and Arts Law Review, 9 (89).

Working Paper

Dent, C. (2009) An Exploration of the Principles, Precepts and Purposes that Provide Structure to the Patent System. Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, Melbourne, VIC.

Dent, C. (2007) Patent opposition and the constitution: Before or after? University of Melbourne. Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, Melbourne, VIC.

Dent, C. and Cook, I. (2007) Stare Decisis, Repetition and Understanding Common Law. University of Melbourne.

Dent, C. (2007) To see patents as devices of uncertain (but contigent) quality: A Foucaultian perspective. Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, Melbourne, VIC.

Dent, C. (2007) To see patents as devices of uncertain (but contingent) quality: A Foucaultian perspective. University of Melbourne. Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, Melbourne, VIC.

Dent, C. (2006) Decision-making and quality in the patent examination process: An Australian exploration. University of Melbourne. Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, Melbourne, VIC.

Thesis

Dent, Chris (2003) Reflecting on continuity and discontinuity in the law: an application of Foucault's archaeological method in a reading of judicial decisions in negligence. PhD thesis, Murdoch University.