Exposure draft consultation: Trade Marks Amendment (International Registrations, Hearings and Oppositions) Regulations 2025

Privacy notice

IP Australia will use your submission for the purposes of:

• gaining stakeholder insights and comments on the proposed exposure draft of amendments to the Trade Marks Regulations
• 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 which 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attribute authorship of your submission unless you indicate you wish to remain anonymous, in which case your name will not be published or disclosed.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 would prefer that your submission, or any part of your submission, is not published on our website, please indicate in the question below, clearly identifying that the whole submission is confidential or otherwise the parts of the submission you identify as confidential. IP Australia will not publish any submission or part of a submission that you have marked as confidential.

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 Ministers with responsibility for intellectual property rights legislation and their offices
• to the Department of Industry, Science and Resources and other Commonwealth government agencies
• 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.