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Lecturer
BA (Computer Science) LLB (Hons) UQ LLM QUT 
Admitted to practice as a solicitor by the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia
Contact:
Room: C746 (Gardens Point campus)
Tel: (07) 3138 2833
Fax: (07) 3138 2121
Email: b.mceniery@qut.edu.au
Ben McEniery is currently is a lecturer in the Law School. Prior to joining the Faculty in February 2005, Ben practised as a solicitor at Clayton Utz in the areas of technology and intellectual property and insurance litigation. He had also been employed as a senior research officer with the Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committee of the Queensland Parliament, where he was involved in the drafting of the 2004 Three Year Review of the Crime and Misconduct Commission.
Ben specialises in the areas of intellectual property and real property. He is currently undertaking a PhD thesis entitled, ‘Physical effect in Patent Law’, which is an examination of whether Australian patent law should allow for the patentability of ‘purely intangible inventions’, which are those that do not have a physical aspect or effect. Ben is a member of the Intellectual Property: Knowledge, Culture and Economy Research Program.
Units currently taught:
Research interests:
- Patent law
- Copyright and related rights
- Biotechnology law
- Legal issues relating to the Internet
- The Torrens system of land registration
Select publications
Intellectual Property Law
- Ben McEniery, ‘Patents for Intangible Inventions in Australia after Grant v Commissioner of Patents (Part 1)’ (2007) 13(2) Computer and Telecommunications Law Review 70. [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00007006/01/7006.pdf]
- Ben McEniery, ‘Patents for Intangible Inventions in Australia after Grant v Commissioner of Patents (Part 2)’ (2007) 13(3) Computer and Telecommunications Law Review 100. [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00007444/01/7444.pdf]
- Ben McEniery, ‘Grant v Commissioner of Patents - The Introduction of a Physicality Requirement into Australian Patent Law’ (2006) 12(8) Computer and Telecommunications Law Review N−193.
Real Property
- Ben McEniery, ‘A Dedicated Means of Giving Notice of the Existence of Unregistered Interests Under Torrens’ (2006) 12(3) Australian Property Law Journal 244. [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00003748/01/3748.pdf]
- Ben McEniery, ‘Steps to Combat Mortgage Fraud’ (2006) 26 Qld Lawyer 238.
- Ben McEniery, ‘Could the Land Title Act 1994 (Qld) be Further Amended to Better Protect Unregistered Interests?’ (2006) 26 Qld Lawyer 240.
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