Bill
Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Regulator Performance) Bill 2023
passed, as at 2023-11-17. Industry and Science portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Industry and Science
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2023-06-22
- second reading — 2023-06-22
- other — 2023-08-01
- second reading — 2023-08-01
- second reading — 2023-08-01
- other — 2023-08-02
- third reading — 2023-08-02
- introduced — 2023-08-02
- second reading — 2023-08-02
- second reading — 2023-11-09
- second reading — 2023-11-09
- third reading — 2023-11-09
- passed — 2023-11-09
- royal assent — 2023-11-17
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2023-06-22.
The bill would make targeted fixes to Australia's intellectual property laws so they work as originally intended.
It would amend the Olympic Insignia Protection Act 1987, the Trade Marks Act and the Patents Act to clear up unclear language, fix small errors and give users more modern ways to manage their IP.
The six parts of the bill cover trade marks that include Olympic symbols, how registrations are renewed, revoked and restored, the official journal and outdated provisions.
- The bill would increase legal certainty by correcting minor inconsistencies in IP legislation.
- It would allow users to interact with the IP system in more modern and flexible ways.
- The bill would amend the Olympic Insignia Protection Act 1987, the Trade Marks Act and the Patents Act.
Users of Australia's intellectual property system, including trade mark owners and applicants.
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