Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - Laws and Regulations under TRIPS Art. 63.2

Main dedicated intellectual property law or regulation (Main laws and regulations must be notified in a WTO language (English, French or Spanish). Where an authentic national text of a law or regulation is not available in a WTO language, the authentic text of that law or regulation in a national language shall be notified, in addition to the translation into a WTO language.)

Other law or regulation (Other laws and regulations can be notified in a Member's national language)

6. Brief description

This regulation amends the Patents Regulations 1991, Trade Marks Regulations 1995, Designs Regulations 2004 and Plant Breeder's Rights Regulations 1994 (collectively ‘the Regulations’) to: update the Regulations to implement changes in fees arising from the fee review conducted by IP Australia; amend the Designs Regulations, the Patents Regulations and the Trade Marks Regulations to enable customers to provide statutory declarations electronically and simplify the requirements for filing a declaration; amend the Trade Marks Regulations to implement provisions of the Trade Marks Act 1995, as amended by the Personal Property Securities (Consequential Amendments) Act 2009; update the Designs Regulations, the Patents Regulations and the Trade Marks Regulations to include the Netherlands (including Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten) and Samoa in the list of Convention countries, commencing on 1 July 2012; and update the Patents Regulations to reflect changes to the Regulations under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (the PCT Rules) as approved by the International Patent Cooperation Union Assembly (PCT Assembly) at its meeting in September-October 2011.

7. Date of entry into force

Date of entry into force (DD/MM/YYYY)

Please provide explanation if necessary

Sections 1 to 6; and Parts 1 to 4 of Schedule 1; and Parts 1 to 4 of Schedule 2; and Parts 1 to 3 of Schedule 3; and Part 1 of Schedule 4; commenced on 1 July 2012. All remaining provisions commenced on 1 October 2012.

8. Other date

Adoption, or

Enactment, or

Publication, or

Issuance by legislature or executive

None

DD/MM/YYYY

Laws and Regulations under TRIPS Art. 63.2 - View details of the document

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