Which is the competent authority for Australian invention patent applications

Acceptance of restoration of priority on grounds of "due care" and "unintentional/due care"

• Registration: 2 weeks.
• Certification: 4 months.

no

yes. It is allowed to include multiple designs in one design application.

In Australia, the acquisition of patent application for design is divided into two parts: registration and certification. Both of these are required to legally exercise design rights. After IP Australia's 8-week preliminary review of the design, the design patent will obtain a patent certificate. If you want to exercise the design patent right, you must go through 13 weeks of IP Australia's review and reply, and you will be certified after passing.

• via Paris Convention : 12 months from earliest priority date.
• via Nationalization of PCT : 31 months from earliest priority date.

yes

For innovation patents that have ceased application on August 25, 2021, the innovation patents that have been applied for can still enjoy the corresponding 8-year protection period.

20 years, drug patents can apply for protection to 24 years.

no