Don’t Request Examination Of Design Registrations For Display Screens, GUIs And Icons…….Yet!

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IP Australia has recently proposed several updates of the Australian Registered Designs system. The proposed updates include allowing certification of design registrations for display screens, graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and icons. This will remove a current anomaly with the system, whereby design registrations can be obtained for display screens, GUIs and icons, but these registrations …
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Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick Named Among Diversity Council Australia’s 2024 – 2025 Inclusive Employers

We are pleased to announce that Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick has been recognised as a Diversity Council of Australia (DCA) Inclusive Employer for 2024-2025. This is POF’s second time applying for and receiving inclusive employer recognition after being awarded the status for the first time in 2021 – 2022. To achieve this recognition, POF participated in the …
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Proposed Updates to the Australian Designs System

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In mid-2023, IP Australia sought public comments on proposals to expand the Australian registered designs system to allow for the protection of virtual designs, partial designs and incremental designs. A link to our earlier article discussing these proposed changes is provided here.  Thirty-six (36) submissions were received by IP Australia from a range of stakeholders, …
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Congratulations to Our New Principal: Duncan Joiner

Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick is thrilled to announce the elevation of Duncan Joiner to be a Principal of the firm. Duncan has been a member of the Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick Engineering team for many years and is primarily involved in drafting and prosecuting patent applications in Australia and around the world for both local and international clients. …
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Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick Farewells Managing Principal Ross McFarlane

Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick is grateful to have a team of unique, inspiring and talented individuals. For the past 8 years, we have been led by our Managing Principal, Ross McFarlane, however, it is with mixed emotions that we announce Ross McFarlane’s retirement from Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick effective 30 June 2024. Ross began his professional career …
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A Class Act (OK, they’re actually only Regulations)

The Trade Mark class headings in Schedule 1 of the Trade Marks Regulations have been amended by the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Regulator Performance) Regulations 2024 to conform with the 12th edition of the Nice Classification, an international classification system now used by most countries. Most classes have been affected by the amendments, some in …
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400 Years of the Statute of Monopolies

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  29 May 2024 is an important date in the history of patent law as it marks the quadricentennial of the Statute of Monopolies (21 Jas. 1. c. 3). The Statute of Monopolies was passed by the Parliament of England and received royal assent on 29 May 1624. Although the Venetian Patent Statute of 1474 …
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