Dinusha Mendis

Professor Dinusha Mendis

Professor of Intellectual Property & Innovation Law

Areas of expertise

  • 3D printing
  • 3D printing and intellectual property
  • amusements
  • ancient telescope
  • animation
  • anthropology
  • assistive technology
  • BAFTA Albert in Education partnership
  • biological signs of stress
  • blockchain
  • blockchain and intellectual property
  • Booker prize
  • brain injury
  • British Archaeology
  • celestial alignment
  • climate change
  • coastal erosion
  • comics
  • cortisol
  • cultural analysis
  • dementia care
  • dementia therapy
  • Diffusion tensor Imaging
  • digital business
  • disabled technology
  • drug analysis
  • e-readers
  • e-reading
  • entrepreneurship
  • fairgrounds
  • female comics
  • feminist theory
  • financial scams
  • flooding
  • forensic analysis
  • fruits and vegetables
  • gender studies
  • geophysics
  • girls and comics
  • gothic comics
  • governance of bodies
  • Greek Archaeology
  • healthy eating
  • hidden voices
  • influencers
  • Innovation
  • Kindle
  • learning innovation
  • legal high
  • Lesion analysis
  • magazines in the digital age
  • marine biologist
  • marine climate change
  • national centre for computer animation
  • NCCA
  • never let me go
  • NPS
  • omega-3 oils and depression
  • organisational image and legitimacy
  • Oscars
  • overfishing
  • parody
  • parody and intellectual property
  • participatory research
  • postnatal depression
  • postnatal depression in men
  • protein intake in older adults
  • Pyramids
  • reading on kindle
  • remains of the day
  • reminiscence therapy
  • resorts
  • robot carers
  • Russian Archaeology
  • scamming
  • seaside
  • social identity
  • social media influencers
  • social work
  • sociology
  • solar panels
  • sport consumption
  • sport fandom
  • sports mega-events
  • stop and search
  • stress diagnosis
  • stress hormone
  • sugar reduction
  • sweet taste
  • tank corrosion
  • tank protection
  • technology in learning
  • technology in teaching
  • urban spaces
  • VFX
  • Vlochos

Dinusha’s research focuses on the digital aspects of copyright including copyright policy and the challenges to Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) as a result of emerging technologies. Her recent research has focused on the Intellectual Property (IP) implications of 3D Printing and blockchain technology.

She has led on a number of funded projects including a Commissioned Project for the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) exploring the IP Implications of 3D printing, an AHRC funded project exploring the intellectual property implications of 3D scanning, 3D printing and mass customisation of ancient and modern jewellery and a Commissioned project for the European Commission conducting research into the Intellectual Property Implications of the Development of Industrial 3D Printing. Dinusha  has also been involved in commissioned work for the UKIPO on the implementation of a parody and orphan works exception in the UK.

Dinusha is a founding member of Copyrightuser.org and continues to be actively involved in this project.

Dinusha has conducted broadcast interviews on her subject on the likes of BBC 5Live and The Guardian.