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Associate ProfessorVicki Huang

Associate Professor

Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Law School

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  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Law School
  • +61 3 924 68090 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    The Loss of the Disparagement Bar is Something to be Truly Lamented” – New Study Looks at USPTO post-Tam. World Trade Mark Review (opens in a new tab)⁠
    20 Oct 2021
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  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    2021-2023
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    Herald Sun, Adella Beaini, 10 best Aussie minds making your lives easier: The Inventors Sunday 26 March 2023. All Newscorp Sunday papers.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    The Australian, Joanna Panagopoulos, Kanye West (now Ye) takes Melbournes College Dropout Burgers to Court, 25 October 2022.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    The Age, Liam Mannix, Little respect keeps women out of STEM, 27 Sept 2022.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    ABC Newcastle, Drive with Paul Turton, 26 September 2022, .
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    The Guardian (live blog), Donna Lu, Gender Bias in Australian Patents, 26 September 2022.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    Cosmos, Ellen Phiddian, More bias against women: Female-sounding patent applicants are less likely to be successful, 27 Sept 2022.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    The Conversation, Vicki Huang, Sue Finch & Cameron Patrick, We studied 309,544 patent applications and found inventing is still a mans world, 26 September, 2022.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    World Trade Mark Review, Tim Lince, The Loss of the Disparagement Bar is Something to be Truly Lamented New Study Looks at USPTO post-Tam, 20 October 2021
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teacher of the Year - Innovative Approaches to the Creation of Authentic Assessments that Prepare Students for the Modern workplace. Vice-Chancellor's Award, Deakin University
    1 Jan 2022
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Corrs Chambers Westgarth prize for Trade Mark Law and Unfair Competition, Melbourne Law School
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar Award, Columbia University, 2008
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Burton Memorial Fellowship, Columbia University Scholarship, 2007
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Deakin Law School Award for Teaching Excellence 2022
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Honourable Mention, Australian Legal Research Awards (ECR) CALD 2020
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Finalist - "Academic of the Year", Women in Law Awards, 2019
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Finalist - "Academic of the Year", Lawyers Weekly, 2019
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Australian Postgraduate Award, PhD Scholarship, 2011
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    2017- present
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Vicki Huang, Patents and Gender, Fifth IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia Conference, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 1 - 3 March 2023 (hybrid, online).
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Vicki Huang, Shape Trade Marks and Footwear in Australia, Fashion Law Roundtable, National University Singapore, 6 Jan 2023.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Vicki Huang, Sue Finch, Cameron Patrick, Patents and Gender, 113th Annual Conference of the Society of Legal Scholars, Kings College, London, UK, September 6-9, 2022 (hybrid, online).
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Vicki Huang, Sue Finch, Cameron Patrick, Patents and Gender: A Big Data Analysis of 15 Years of Australian Patent Applications, Australasian Intellectual Property Academics Conference (AIPAC), University Technology Sydney, 16 & 18 February 2022.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Vicki Huang, Trademarks, Race and Slur Appropriation: An Inter-Disciplinary and Empirical Study, Australasian Intellectual Property Academics Conference (AIPAC), University Technology Sydney, 16 & 18 February 2022.