Associate Professor of Law

B.Bus (Hons)(ECU)
LLM(Bond)
JP (Qual)(Qld)
Grad Cert (Legal Practice)
Grad Cert(Continuing Legal Practice)(UTS)
GCTM(Biotechnology)
GDipBiotech (UQ)
AFAIM, FAICD, SIA (Aff)


Expertise:
Antitrust law; law of business associations, legal aspects of the commercialisation of science; venture capital and technology transfer.

Profile:
Damien has practiced in antitrust, company and intellectual property law in Queensland and New South Wales in addition to serving other corporate counsel roles in Victoria and overseas. Damien’s commercial experience and interest encompasses the development and implementation of corporate strategies for start-up companies. This includes project and venture capital sourcing, IPO development, technology transfer and intellectual property licensing. He is also the CEO of pharmaBank, a boutique life science incubator. Damien contributes regularly to scholarly journals and lectures in areas related to trade practices law and the biotechnology sector.

Journal Articles

• Damian Hine and Damien Millen (2006) Novel strategies to overcome barriers to commercialisation of new technologies: a case study from the Australian biotechnology industry
• Damien Millen (2006) Drug advertisements: A prescription for misleading and deceptive conduct?
• Damien W. Millen (2005) Ad-agent provocateur: Can advertising agencies be liable as principals for creating misleading ads?
• Damien W. Millen (2005) Who wants to be a millionaire? Misleading and deceptive seminar spruiking
• Damien W. Millen (2004) Master of their own domain: Still more misleading and deceptive conduct around cyberspace
• Damien W. Millen (2004) Thorn in the ACCC's side: Rent ad rants and the TPA
• Damien W. Millen (2004) Fat spat: Packaging, passing off and misleading the metabolically challenged
• Damien W. Millen (2003) Where's the beef (from)?: Misleading and deceptive advertising as to source of product
• Damien W. Millen (2003) Delivery fee not included: What constitutes "price" in cyberspace?
• Damien W. Millen (2003) Good as new? Beer, brand names and Section 52
• Damien W. Millen (2002) A competitor by any other name: Sydney Markets Ltd v Sydney Flower Market Pty Ltd [2002] ATPR (Digest) 46-216