Streamlining and simplifying IP Regulation

IP Australia will use your submission for the purposes of:

• gaining stakeholder insights and comments on possible amendments to the intellectual property (IP) rights legislation or any related IP policy issue;
• contacting you to discuss your submission, informing you about the outcomes of the consultation and informing you of further progress and consultation on these legislative proposals that we think may be of interest to you.

You might give us your personal information with your submission, such as your name and contact details. You might also include personal and/or sensitive information in your submission, such as your opinions. Any personal or sensitive information that you provide in connection with your submission is protected by the Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act) and is collected, disclosed and used by IP Australia for the above purposes.

IP Australia intends to publish your submission, including any personal information provided within it, on its website. Information published online may be accessed world-wide, including by overseas entities. Once the information is published online, IP Australia has no control over its subsequent use and disclosure. You acknowledge and confirm that Australian Privacy Principle (APP) 8 will not apply to the disclosure. If any overseas recipient handles your personal information in breach of the APPs, you acknowledge and agree that IP Australia will not be accountable under the Privacy Act and you will not be able to seek redress under the Act.

Your name – if supplied – will be used to attribute authorship of your submission unless you indicate you wish to remain anonymous, in which case your name will not be published or disclosed.

If you consider that your submission, or any part of it, is confidential and should not be published on our website, please complete questions 2 and 3 below appropriately. Question 2 allows you to indicate whether you consent to having your submission or part(s) of it published. Question 3 allows you to identify what part(s) of your submission are confidential and should not be published.

In any event, IP Australia retains sole discretion to not publish a submission that is not confidential or has a non-confidential part. This includes removing any content from the submission or part before publishing it on IP Australia’s website. Such removed content could include unlawful, defamatory or offensive content.

Your submission, including any personal information you provide, may be disclosed:

• to relevant Australian and New Zealand Ministers with responsibility for or an interest in intellectual property rights legislation and their offices
• New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE)
• to the Department of Industry, Science and Resources and other Commonwealth government agencies
• the Trans-Tasman IP Attorneys Board
• to relevant contractors providing services to the above parties
• in response to a request by another Australian minister
• where required by a House or a Committee of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia
• where authorised or required by law.

Any such disclosure will be for the purposes outlined above. This disclosure may occur even where your submission has been marked as confidential.

IP Australia will not use or disclose your personal information provided for any other purposes unless authorised or required by law. For more information about how IP Australia handles your personal information, how you may access or correct your personal information or how to make a privacy-related complaint, please read IP Australia’s Privacy Policy. 

By making a submission to this consultation, you consent to your personal information being handled in accordance with this Privacy Notice and IP Australia’s Privacy Policy. In providing any third-party personal information in a submission you also warrant you have obtained their consent to their personal information being similarly handled.

Your views will be considered but there is no guarantee that they will determine government policy.