In the Shadow of the China–Australia FTA Negotiations: What Australian Business Thinks About IP* Anne Leahy٭§, Donald MacLaren‡, David Morgan†, Kimberlee Weatherall♣^, Elizabeth Webster٭§, Jongsay Yong٭§, ٭Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, University of Melbourne §Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne ‡Department of Economics, University of Melbourne †Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne †Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade ♣T C Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland ^Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia Working Paper No. 07/07 ISSN 1447-2317 September 2007 *The authors would particularly like to thank Clinton Hayes for statistical advice, Leigh Parnell, Simon Calder, Andrew Witherford, Paul Jensen, Helen Dawson for comments and OZInfo for conducting the survey. The views in this paper should not be attributed to either the Australian Government or the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia The University of Melbourne Law School Building Victoria 3010 Australia Telephone: 61 (0) 3 8344 1127 Fax: 61 (0) 3 9348 2353 Email: info@ipria.org www.ipria.org