The Australian Intellectual Property Office recently released its annual report for 2022-2023. The report provides statistics on patents, trademarks, new plant varieties, etc. over the past year. As of June 30, 2023, IP AUSTRALIA has received A total of 32,051 patent applications, 80,062 trademark registration applications, 8,366 industrial designs and 339 new plant variety applications were filed, and the current industrial designs were reformed in terms of virtual reality, partial design and incremental design. Protect. In 2023, for 85% of patent applications containing an invention, IP Australia can provide an international search report within 10 weeks; for 85% of trademark applications, the first examination opinion can be issued within 13 weeks; for 85% of appearance Designs complete formal review within 8 weeks; 85% of new plant variety applications complete the initial stage of review within 8 weeks. The review cycle has been extended compared to 2022.
IP AUSTRALIA believes that it has achieved the quality and satisfaction originally planned by itself in 2023, reaching 12 of all 14 timeliness commitments, but there are still 2 that failed to meet the time period requirements of the original plan. This is most likely due to the time delay caused by the launch of a new IP platform.
Interested friends can automatically download the annual report from the Yizhima official website.
