For over three decades, the principal of Brennan IP Advice, Dr David Brennan, has been professionally engaged with Australian intellectual property law.
His doctoral thesis, which arose from his work with the Australian film industry, was published as Retransmission and US Compliance with TRIPS (Kluwer Law International, 2003) and helped to shape the contours of the Australian copyright retransmission regime.
Since 2007, he has served as a General Editor of the Australian Intellectual Property Journal (Thomson Reuters). He is the author of two practitioner-focused textbooks in the field: Copyright Law (The Federation Press, 2021) and Patent Claims (The Federation Press, 2025). Dr Brennan has also taught intellectual property law courses at several universities, including Melbourne, Adelaide, Oxford and Monash.
Publications
Copyright Law
A comprehensive resource for practitioners, students and those in copyright-dependent industries.
Australian Intellectual Property Journal
The Australian Intellectual Property Journal examines important intellectual property law issues and developments within Australia and around the globe.
Patent Claims
A textbook treatment on the role that claims play, how they are construed, their main grounds of validity and the bases upon which they are infringed.
Timely and dependable expertise
If you are a lawyer or attorney seeking authoritative guidance on complex intellectual property law issues, contact Brennan IP Advice.
