IP Australia is undertaking a fee review during the 2023-24 financial year. The aim of this review is to assess the entity’s cost recovery arrangements, in accordance with the Australian Government Charging Framework, and to ensure IP Australia’s fees are consistent, transparent and recover the...
Closes 2 July 2023
As part of our ongoing work on plant breeder’s rights (PBR) reform , IP Australia has published six independent reports from the University of Queensland (UQ) on the plant breeder’s rights (PBR) system. The reports make several recommendations for potential reform to the PBR system. We are...
Closed 14 April 2023
As part of the Australian Government commitment to establish stand-alone legislation to protect Indigenous Knowledge, its Indigenous Knowledge Working Group is conducting a scoping study on potential elements of stand-alone legislation that would support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
Closed 9 November 2022
In March 2013, the Governments of Australia and New Zealand entered into an Arrangement for Trans-Tasman Regulation of Patent Attorneys . The Arrangement aimed to provide a joint registration regime for patent attorneys to practise in Australia and New Zealand. The Arrangement included commitments...
Closed 2 February 2022
The Australian Government has released the draft Regulator Performance Omnibus Bill, and is calling for submissions to ensure it is informed by business and community expectations of regulators. The Bill updates or removes outdated administrative provisions across Commonwealth legislation...
Closed 14 January 2022
Introduction Currently, after a design application has met its minimum filing requirements it proceeds to a formalities assessment. For these assessments, design applications are currently dealt with in part by the requirements in Schedule 2 of the Designs Regulations 2004....
Closed 30 November 2021