Ms Heather Forrest
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Faculty of The Professions, School of Law
Qualifications
B.A., Language (French, with honors) and International Trade, Clemson University; LL.M., Computer and Communications Law, University of London (Queen Mary College); J.D., College of William and Mary
Contact
| Email: | heather.forrest@une.edu.au |
Prior to joining the School of Law in 2007, Heather practiced law as a member of the New York (USA) Bar in the London office of US-based firm Kilpatrick Stockton LLP. In practice, she represented a wide range of clients in luxury brand goods, technology, entertainment/media, and food and beverage business sectors on an international team providing intellectual property, IT, and general corporate legal advice to North American and European companies. Heather has practiced IP law in both the USA and in England.
Heather has recently completed a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Professor Thomas Cottier, Director of the World Trade Institute and Institute for European and International Economic Law, Universität Bern, Switzerland, and Professor Jürgen Bröhmer, Head of the School of Law, University of New England and Visiting Professor, Europa Institute, Saarbrücken University. The thesis is entitled ‘This is My Country: Geographic names, their protection in international law and ICANN Domain Name System policy’. As is required under the Universität Bern doctoral rules, the thesis will be published as a monograph. Heather is currently finalising a book proposal to be submitted to the highly regarded English legal publishing house, Edward Elgar.
In mid-August 2011 Heather departed her position as Senior Lecturer in the UNE School of Law to take up the role of Senior Domain Name Industry Consultant at AusRegistry International. AusRegistry International currently operates Australia’s .au country code top-level domain as well as other countries’ country code top-level domains. Heather will be counseling governments and major global brand holders on how to manage their internet presence once the internet begins a massive expansion process in 2012. The position offers her the opportunity to put the conclusions reached in her thesis into practice, and her work is likely to focus in particular on strategy surrounding intellectual property rights and geographic names.
Publications
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Books
Heather Ann Forrest and Craig Collins, Intellectual Property (Lexis Nexis Butterworths 2008).
Book Chapters
Heather Ann Forrest, ‘The Severability of Trademarks and Goodwill under Australian Law: A Franchise in Disguise’ in Collaboration and conflict: Relational rights and responsibilities in franchising (Bond University Press, 2011).
Journal Articles
Heather Ann Forrest, ‘The New Frontier: Country Brands and their Legal Status under Australian Trade Mark Law’ (2009) 20 Australian Intellectual Property Journal 1.
Heather Ann Forrest and Andrew Terry, ‘Where’s the beef? Why Burger King is Hungry Jack’s in Australia and other complications in building a global franchise brand’ (2008) 28(2) Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business 171.
Heather Ann Forrest, ‘Utility Model: Widening the Economic Divide between “Legacy” and “New” EU Member States’, (2004) 32 International Business Lawyer 216.
Heather Ann Forrest, ‘Europe: Open Market… Open Source’ (2003) Duke Law and Technology Review.
Heather Ann Forrest, ‘Case Comment: Eldred v. Ashcroft’, Intellectual Property Today, November 2003, 38.
Heather Ann Forrest and Rajita Sharma, ‘A Lifeline for Infringing Ships’ (2003) 25(9) European Intellectual Property Review 430.
Heather Ann Forrest, ‘Drawing a Line in the Constitutional Sand Between Congress and the Foreign Citizen Cybersquatter’ (2001) 9 Bill of Rights Journal 461.
Refereed Conference Papers
Heather Ann Forrest, ‘Transfers of goodwill without business names: A Franchise in Disguise’ (Paper presented at Franchise Law Colloquium: Perspectives on Relational Arrangements in Franchising, Bond University, Australia, 21 November 2008).
Heather Ann Forrest, ‘Brand Britain: Representations of “Britishness” in Australian Trade Marks’ (Paper presented at Britishness, Citizenship and Identity Conference, University of Huddersfield, UK, 5-6 June 2008).
Affiliations
Attorney, State of New York USA, Third Judicial Department
Member, New York State Bar Association
Member, ICANN Intellectual Property Constituency
Areas of Teaching
Areas of interest: Intellectual Property Law, International Trade Law, Information Technology Law
Research interests
Intellectual property law, of which in particular trade mark law, policy and strategy
Legal rights in expressions of national identity
TRIPS and cultural rights