A Design Amendment (Advisory Council on Intellectual Property Response) Bill 2020 was passed by the Australian Parliament on 30 August 2021. The most notable change by this Bill is the introduction of a 12-month grace period for filing a design application in Australia. This means you can make your design public up to 12 months...Read More

Whilst Patent Offices and courts in various jurisdictions such as US, Europe and UK have rejected the idea of an Artificial Intelligience (AI) system named DABUS to be an inventor, an Australian Federal Court has in Thaler v Commissioner of Patents [2021] FCA 879 held that artificial intelligience (AI) systems can be inventors for the...Read More