Paul Sugden

Paul Sugden is a lecturer in the Department of Business Law and Taxation.

He completed a BA (majoring in economics and history), an LLB (Qld), and an LLM, in intellectual property law and comparative anti-trust law, at the University of London.

Paul was a solicitor for 14 years practicing in the field of commercial law and specialising in intellectual property and corporate restructuring with international and specialist law firms. He also worked at University of Queensland, teaching law.

He was the honorary solicitor to Australian Textile Fibre Forum Ltd on intellectual property issues for the use of artistic works for 16 years. He has advised  VACC on intellectual property issues in the motor industry. Paul was the Queensland Chairperson of the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc. for six years.
He won a Victorian Government tender for development of the Workshop Module in Entrepreneurship on Intellectual Property Laws. This course is an initiative of the Victorian Government to focus on the skills and knowledge required by entrepreneurs to develop their ideas into a business. The course is to be presented in five separate workshop modules focusing on the accounting, marketing and legal environments of innovation from the idea to business.

Paul has written articles for refereed and professional journals on remedies in intellectual property law, credit law and business law.

His field of research examines the relevance and effects of intellectual property law on business organisations and information technology.