Patent Attorney Education
Royal provided many tutorial sessions in a wide range of subjects for the Patent Attorney Professional Standards Board (now the Professional Standards Board for Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Graduate Program in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Melbourne from 2000 to 2003; a Member of the Intellectual Property Advisory Board at Monash University from 2001; and a member of the Singapore Patent Attorney Qualifying Examination Committee from 2002 to 2005.
When the Australian Government reviewed the training and professional qualification regimes for Australian Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, Royal was involved in making (and having adopted) many of the changes as a member of each of the Professional Standards Board for Patent and Trade Marks Attorneys, the Advisory Council for Industrial Property and the Intellectual Property Working Party for Federal Government Innovation Summit from 2000. Malcolm also played a significant role in establishing the IPTA Academy of Education.
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