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EnglishCountry/Region: Australia
Competent Authority: IP Australia
Official Website: https://www.ipaustralia.gov.au
Eligible Applicants: Australian enterprises; foreign enterprises; individual applicants;
*Foreign applicants are generally required to submit applications through a local agent.
Classification System: Australia uses the Nice Classification (45 classes in total); multi-class applications are permitted.
Required Application Materials:
Generally, the following information is required:
Trademark representation (image);
Applicant's name and address;
Classes of goods or services;
Registration Timeline: Approximately 7–9 months to complete registration.
Validity Period: 10 years (calculated from the date of registration); renewable every 10 years, with no limit on the number of renewals.
IPOS Update on IP/IT Dispute Resolution in Singapore: August-September 2026
The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore released its August-September 2026 update on IP and IT dispute resolution on September 21, 2026, as listed on Singapore Law Watch, the Singapore Academy of Law portal. The regular bulletin from IPOS's Hearings and Mediation Department covers recent Singapore court and IPOS decisions, featured articles, events and other developments in IP/IT dispute resolution during August and September 2026.
Latest Trends in Australian Intellectual Property Applications
China's official IPR protection portal on September 22, 2026 summarized IP Australia's Australian IP Report 2026: trademark and design filings hit record highs, provisional patent applications jumped 58.1%, AI- and energy-related filings surged, and direct filings gained over international routes. The report also tracks the Copyright Act amendment passed March 31, 2026 creating an orphan-works scheme, and Canberra's July 2026 AI policy stance rejecting a text-and-data-mining exception.
UPC Unfiltered, by Willem Hoyng – UPC Decisions Week 38, 2026
Willem Hoyng's week-38 UPC roundup, published September 21, 2026, puts court fees in focus: the Court of Appeal's Dainese v Motocard order confirming an appeal is inadmissible if court fees remain unpaid 14 days after the Registry's reminder; settled Ericsson SEP cases in Mannheim and Paris that returned only 40% and 35% of court fees; and AMMS v Gilead, holding that an appeal does not automatically suspend an 800,000-euro cost order.
USPTO's 'Tiger Team' Joins WIPO's Global IP Assignment Platform Pilot Program
The USPTO announced on September 21, 2026 that it will participate in WIPO's Global IP Assignment Platform (GIPAP) pilot program, a centralized, standard platform for filing and tracking IP assignments. A cross-functional tiger team co-led by Deputy Commissioner for Patents Robin Evans and Chief Policy Officer Mary Critharis reviewed WIPO's feasibility study and prototype before the agency joined Phase 2, which will develop and validate end-to-end workflows with a representative set of IP office
Notice on Issuing the Service Guide for Shanghai Patent Priority Examination Recommendation Services
The Shanghai Municipal Intellectual Property Office released its Service Guide for Patent Priority Examination Recommendation Services on September 22, 2026, implementing CNIPA's revised Patent Priority Examination Management Measures (Order No. 85). The guide covers invention, utility model and design applications plus reexamination and invalidation cases, is open to domestic and overseas applicants, and promises merit-based recommendations within seven working days, free of charge.
UPC Unfiltered, by Willem Hoyng – UPC Decisions Week 37, 2026
In his week-37 roundup, Willem Hoyng covers the Milan Local Division's preliminary injunction for Abbott over Sibio's glucose monitoring device — including a detailed restatement of the UPC sufficiency-of-disclosure standard for functional claims — a Dusseldorf review upholding an ex parte evidentiary seizure against SwissBit, consolidated defence timing for Amazon group defendants, and a 50% court-fee refund on the Ericsson v Transsion settlement.
USPTO Pivot on PTAB Oversight Raises Questions About PTAB Control
Sources tell IPWatchdog that USPTO Director John Squires has informed PTAB judges he will relinquish decision-making authority over which patent challenges to institute, returning it to the Board less than a year after centralizing it — an apparent repositioning ahead of a September 29 oversight hearing. Institution rates, which fell to 40% in FY 2026 from 68% in FY 2024, already ticked up to 54% in July and August.
CIFTIS 2026 Observation: How Is the Intellectual Property Services Industry Moving to the Forefront of Industry?
At the 2026 CIFTIS international conference on IP services held September 10 in Beijing, the Beijing Intellectual Property Office released Implementation Measures for IP Financial Support Funds, building an integrated "pledge financing + insurance + securitization" support system. CNIPA pledged to push IP services toward higher specialization; Beijing now hosts over 10,000 IP service agencies and 14,000 practicing patent agents, whose 2025 filings accounted for over 40% of national invention gra
UPC Unfiltered, by Willem Hoyng – UPC Decisions Week 36, 2026
In his week-36 roundup, Willem Hoyng covers the Dusseldorf Local Division's September 2 judgment for InterDigital against 11 Disney companies over a streaming patent — criticizing the 36 auxiliary requests that produced it — plus the Court of Appeal's refusal of suspensive effect for Fujifilm's rehearing request against Kodak, limits on employee questioning during the WEPA evidentiary seizure, and cost rulings on interpreters and security refunds.
CAFC Affirms Fee Award Over Deficient Patent Pre-Suit Investigation
The Federal Circuit affirmed a Northern District of California ruling awarding attorney's fees to Platinum Optics Technology under 35 U.S.C. Section 285, finding Viavi Solutions litigated an "exceptional" case: it sued over optical filters without evidence any accused filter was sold in the United States, and kept relying on a license-released filter after a sworn declaration made its theory untenable. "There is no right to sue a party based on a nonmeritorious claim in hope of finding material
What Typical IP Cases Does New Technology Bring? Policy and Law Must Keep Pace with the Times
At the China Intellectual Property Annual Conference on September 8, companies including Huawei described how 3D scanning and AI are reshaping infringement. CNIPA official Song Beibei said the revised Regulations on the Protection of Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits — newly covering integrated photonics and quantum functions — will take effect October 15, and that China's 83 national IP protection centers have compressed invention patent grants via pre-examination to under three months.
UPC Unfiltered, by Willem Hoyng – UPC Decisions Week 35, 2026
In his week-35 roundup, Willem Hoyng highlights the Hamburg Local Division's August 24 judgment in Fraunhofer v HMD, finding the AAC standard-essential patent EP 2 380 167 valid and infringed, rejecting the FRAND defense, and granting an injunction after eight years of unlicensed use. The week also brought notable court-fee rulings: Genevant v Moderna received only a 25% fee refund on settlement, while Malikie v Xiaomi received the standard 50%.