Associate Professor Natalie Stoianoff BSc LLB MAppSc (Biotech) (UNSW) FTIA

Title Sub-Dean Faculty of Law

Institution University of Wollongong

Discipline 

Law

Expertise 

Intellectual Property Law, Bioethics, Biodiversity and Taxation Law.
Regulation of genetic information, ownership of genetic information and resources, institutional linkages and technology transfer mechanisms in the Australian biotechnology industry and agricultural biotechnology policy

Research 1993 Law Foundation Grant to develop database – Legal Issues Affecting Biotechnology

1996 Small ARC: Patentability of Living Organisms and Ownership of Biological Materials

1997 Research Fellowship, Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international Patent, Copyright and Competition Law, Munich, in the field of Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Law

1998 Research Fellowship, Max-Planck-Institute, Munich, continuation of project

1999 Small ARC: The shaping of policy and innovation in agricultural biotechnology in Australia, with Wendy Russell and Glenn Mitchell (BELSA)

2000 Law Foundation Grant to assist in the development of research databases for the Faculty of Law, UoW

2001 Inaugural Professor Anastasios Dontas Travelling Fellowship to present the legal paper at the Greek/Australian International Legal & Medical Conference, June 2001, Corfu

2002 Research Fellowship, Max-Planck-Institute, Munich, project on the patentability of biological materials

2002 Near Miss ARC Discovery Grant: Institutional linkages and technology transfer mechanisms in the Australian biotechnology industry (Natalie Stoianoff & Kavoos Mohannak)

2003 Law Foundation Grant: Biological Resources and benefit sharing – the intersection between Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property

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

Stoianoff, N.P., Accessing Biological Resources: Complying with the Convention for Biological Diversity, sole ed., International Environmental Law Series, Kluwer 2004, 280 pages.

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

Stoianoff, N.P. & Fox, T., Managing Access to Australia's Biological Resources: Issues in Developing a National Approach, Chapter 5 in Accessing Biological Resources: Complying with the Convention for Biological Diversity, International Environmental Law Series, Kluwer 2004, pp 91-114.

Stoianoff N.P., Genetics , Health and Guardianship: Medical Innovations and the Law, Laws of Australia, LBC, chapter 3 1995, pp 51-80.

Stoianoff, N.P., Patenting Computer Software: An Australian Perspective, European Intellectual Property Review, Vol 21 Issue 10 October 1999, Sweet & Maxwell, pp.500–507.

Stoianoff, N.P., Access to Australia’s Biological Resources and Technology Transfer, European Intellectual Property Review, Vol 20 Issue 8 August 1998, Sweet & Maxwell, .pp.298–305.

Stoianoff N.P., Legal Issues for Genetic Engineering, Australasian Biotechnology Journal, Vol 3 No 5, October 1993, p.288-290.

Stoianoff, N.P., Medical Use of Genetic Technology: Developing the Foundation of a New Regulatory Regime, "Selected Papers", Eighth Greek/Australian International Legal & Medical Conference, Corfu 4-9 June 2001, Edited by Graham D. Burrows, pp.23-36 (Aug 2002).

Stoianoff, N.P., Regulation of the use of genetic technology for medical purposes, Boundary Disputes: Ethics, Law and Regulation (The Limits of Law), Conference, Australian Institute of Health, Law and Ethics, 5-9 July 2000, pp.110-118 (2002).
Memberships Positions Australasian Biotechnology Association (Ausbiotech Ltd)

Co- Founding Director of the Australian Institute for Health Law and Ethics
ATRIP, International Association for the advancement of teaching and research in Intellectual Property