During 2007, Professor Antons published one edited book and several book chapters, articles and working papers, as well as working on an edited volume resulting from a workshop in December 2006. He also organised a follow-up workshop on ‘IP Enforcement in the Asia Pacific Region’. Held in December 2007, this was organised in co-operation with CCI and the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich. It was co-convened by Mr. Weerawit Weeraworawit, Minister for Commercial Affairs of the government of Thailand and Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific (CLDSAP) at the University of Wollongong. The workshop was attended by 17 speakers from Australia, the USA, the UK, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia.
Professor Antons presented papers on intellectual property law at conferences, workshops and seminars in Asia, Australia, the USA, Switzerland, Germany, Singapore and China. He also lectured in the Graduate Program of the University of Melbourne, and made a presentation as part of the ‘Regional Capacity in Intellectual Property Law’ scholarship programme at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore.
He was appointed external partner of ‘e-Diversity: The legal protection of cultural diversity in a digital networked environment’, a program run jointly by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research and i-call (International Communication and Art Law Lucerne) at the University of Lucerne. In addition, he continued to work as Adjunct Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law; as Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Law; and as Associated Researcher for the program on ‘Intellectual Property: Knowledge, Culture and Economy’ at the QUT Faculty of Law.