Dr. Dimitrios G. Eliades

(Australia)

Dr. Dimitrios G Eliades holds a Bachelor of Theology, a Bachelor of Laws from Sydney University, and a Master of Laws from the University of Queensland concentrating on IP and IP related subjects. In 2008 he was awarded a doctorate by the Queensland University of Technology in the area of patent entitlement. Recommendations made in his doctoral thesis on patent entitlement, were adopted by the Government in the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising The Bar) Act 2012 (Cth), by the insertion of a new s.22A and s.191A into the Patents Act 1990.

Dimitrios answered a call to the Brisbane Bar in October 1998 where he is now a barrister in private practice exclusively in the field of intellectual property.

He has been since 2002, the author of the update publications in the areas of copyright, trade marks, patents, designs, confidential information and related rights within the LexisNexis publications, entitled ‘Lahore – Copyright and Designs’ and ‘Lahore – Patents Trade Marks and Related Rights’.

Dimitrios also co-authors with Professor Anne Fitzgerald, the Thomson Reuters’ publications ‘IP Nutshell’, ‘Introduction to Intellectual Property’ and ‘Intellectual; property – Principles and Practice’ (with Dr A Fitzgerald and Dr R Olwan), Thomson Reuters, Sydney, 2022.