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Books and journals

Dr Spence has published research on contract, equity, unfair competition, intellectual property, and information technology. He is a member of several editorial/advisory boards.

Contract

Books

Articles and Chapters

Reviews

  • Review of Treitel, Frustration and Force Majeure and McKendrick (ed.) 'Force Majeure and Frustration of Contract' [1996] Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 156
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Unfair competition

Books

  • The Law of Comparative Advertising: Directive 97/55/EC in the United Kingdom and Germany, Oxford: Hart, 1999 (co-authored with Dr. A Ohly)
  • Comparative Advertising Directive London: Intellectual Property Institute 2000 (co-authored with Dr. A. Ohly)

Articles

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Intellectual Property

Books and studies

  • Intellectual Property, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007
  • The Modern Law of Patents, London: Butterworths, 2005 with T. Cook and A. Roughton (eds)
  • Opposition in the European Patent Office: An Underestimated Weapon? (2.9mb PDF), Olswang/OIPRC study (2001) with T. Adam
  • The First Mover Monopoly, Olswang/OIPRC study (2000) with M. Likhovski (principal author) and M. Molineaux
  • Protecting Traditional Knowledge and Folkore, Report for the Commonwealth Secretariat (2001) with G. Dutfield (principal author)

Articles and chapters

  • 'Restricting Allusion to Trade Marks: A New Justification' in G. Dinwoodie and M. Janis (eds), Trade Mark Law and Theory: A Handbook of Contemporary Research, Edward Elgar: Northampton MA (in press 2007)
  • 'An Alternative Approach to Dilution Protection: A Response to Scott, Oliver and Ley Pineda' in L. Bently, J. Davis and J. Ginsburg, Trade Marks and Brands, Cambridge: CUP (in press 2007)
  • 'Clearing House Mechanisms: Conceptual Framework: Comment on a Paper by Esther Van Zimmerman' in G. Van Overwalle, Gene Patents and Clearing Models, Cambridge: CUP (in press 2007)
  • 'Rogers v. Koons: Copyright and the Problem of Artistic Appropriation' in D. McLean (ed), Trials of Art, London: Ridinghouse, 2007
  • 'Private Control/Public Speech' (71kb PDF) in K. Ziegler, Human Rights and Private Law: Privacy as Autonomy, Oxford: Hart, 2007 (with L. K. Treiger-Bar-Am)
  • 'The Mark as Expression/The Mark as Property' (2005) 58 Current Legal Problems 491
  • 'Vagueness in the Scope of Copyright' (1.1mb PDF) with T. Endicott (2005) 121 Law Quarterly Review 657
  • 'La tutela dei format scoperti negli archivi televisivi' (2003) 8 Quaderni di AIDA 35
  • 'I brevetti di metodi per attività commerciali' (660kb PDF), [2002] Studi Senesi 583
  • 'Justifying Copyright' in K. Schubert and D. McLean (eds), Dear Images, London: Ridinghouse, 2002
  • 'Two Australian Comparative Advertising Cases: The View from Europe' [2001] EIPR 524
  • 'Section 10(3) of the Trade Marks Act 1994: Is there really a logical lapse?' [2001] EIPR 423
  • 'Which Intellectual Property Rights are Trade-Related? (1.2mb PDF)' in Francioni, F. and Scovazzi, M. (eds), Environment, Human Rights and International Trade, Oxford: Hart, 2001
  • 'Intellectual Property and the Problem of Parody' (1.4mb PDF), (1998) 114 Law Quarterly Review 594
  • 'Patents and Biotechnology' (1997) 113 Law Quarterly Review 368
  • 'Passing Off and the Misappropriation of Valuable Intangibles' (1.5mb PDF) (1996) Law Quarterly Review 472
  • 'Aspects of Co-ownership' (1987) 5 Copyright Reporter No.2
    'The Report of the CLRC on Performer's Protection: Brief Summary' (1987) 5 Copyright Reporter No.3
  • 'License-it-or-lose-it' (1987) 5 Copyright Reporter No.6
  • 'Copyright and Historians' (1987), Royal Australian Historical Society Technical Information Service No.9
  • 'Arts Administrators and Copyright' ACC Bulletin No.60 (with S. Bridge)
  • 'Copyright and Designs Law: Reform issues' ACC Bulletin No.61 (with S. Bridge)
  • 'Copyright and Historians' ACC Bulletin No.62 (with E. Baulch)

Reviews

  • Review of Sherman and Strowel, Of Authors and Origins (1995), 111 Law Quarterly Review 346
  • Review of Woodmansee and Jaszi, The Construction of Authorship (1995), 46 Review of English Studies 610
  • Review of Saunders, Authorship and Copyright (1994), 45
  • Review of English Studies 302
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Information Technology

Books and studies

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Equity

Articles and chapters

  • 'Equitable Defences' in Equity, P. Parkinson (ed.), 2nd ed, Sydney: LBC Information Services, 2001
  • 'Equitable Defences' in Equity, P. Parkinson (ed.), Sydney: Law Book Company, 1996
  • 'Equitable Defences' in The Laws of Australia: Equity, Sydney: Law Book Company, 1995
  • 'Equitable Defences' in The Laws of Australia: Equity, Sydney: Law Book Company, 1993 (and supplements 1994, 1995 and 1997)
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Editorial/Advisory Boards

  • iCreative Commons UK 2003 -
  • New Horizons in Intellectual Property, Co-Editor with C. Greenhalgh and R. Pitkethly, 2002 -
  • OULCF, Editorial Board, 2000-
  • CMLP, Advisory Board 1998-
  • European National Patent Reports, Editor, 2000 - 2003
  • Copyright Reporter, Editorial Committee, 1988
  • Oxford Analytica Daily Brief, Contributor
  • New Horizons in Intellectual Property - Forthcoming Edward Elgar series - Co-editor
  • Sydney Law Review, Student Editorial Committee, 1986
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