Annual Technical Report 2006 on Trademark Information Activities submitted by Australia (SCIT/ATR/TM/2006/AU)
Where URLs are requested below, it is preferred that either URLs which are likely to remain stable over time (three years or more) are provided, or home (main) page URLs are provided with a short explanation of how to access the corresponding information.
I. Evolution of registration activities
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The Australian Official Journal of Trade Marks (the Trademark Gazette) is published weekly. There are 50 issues per year - the Easter and Christmas weeks being excluded. The Journal is available on-line, free of charge, via the IP Australia Internet site and contains both bibliographic text and images. Hard copy journal publication has been discontinued.
Standard Notices and Letters are produced via the Trade Marks mainframe business application as XEROX XICS output.
Examination Reports are generated in Word format.
Main types of announcements of the Office in the field of trademark information
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Education Products
Smart Start, IP Australia’s small business education product was updated, with a new web site and email newsletter launched to make information widely available. Smart Start continued to be IP Australia’s most popular public information product, and was selected as a case study for the European Commission’s Benchmarking IP Support Services for SMEs project. The development of an online version of IP Australia’s commercialisation education product, IP Toolbox, was launched in late 2006.
Home-Based Business Seminars Initiative
IP Australia supported the Home-Based Business seminar initiative of the Office of Small Business by hosting presentations on intellectual property issues for small business. The seminars were delivered in more than 70 locations across regional Australia enabling home-based businesses to learn how intellectual property affects them.
World IP Day 2006
A public relations campaign was undertaken for World IP Day, which is celebrated each year on April 26, to increase public awareness of intellectual property and its role in supporting Australian innovation. In support of this campaign, a series of events were held in capital cities in cooperation with the Australian Innovation Festival, which was officially aligned with World IP Day for the first time. The campaign was highly successful and resulted in broad media coverage and strong participation rates for World IP Day events.
New IP Media Centre web site and Journalists’ Guide
IP Australia launched a new Journalists’ Guide to Intellectual Property supported by a new IP Media centre web site to promote better understanding and reporting of intellectual property issues in the media. There was a noticeable increase in the number of media enquiries received by IP Australia since the launch of the Journalists’ Guide and IP Media Centre.
Plant Breeder’s Rights web site
A new web site on plant breeder’s rights was launched by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources. The web site is hosted by the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture and is aimed at improving the understanding of all aspects of the Australian PBR systems, and includes comprehensive information on case law, commercialisation, enforcement and the relationship of PBR to other intellectual property rights.
On 2 July 2006, IP Australia marked the 100th anniversary of the first federally registered trade mark in Australia. To celebrate this milestone IP Australia coordinated a range of activities to help raise the levels of awareness and understanding of trade marks within the Australian community.
Training courses for national and foreign participants
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From 26 - 30 June 2006, IP Australia’s officials visited the National Office of Industrial Property (NOIP) in Viet Nam under the auspice of the APEC TILF Public Education and Awareness program. This project aims to provide resources and training to assist Viet Nam to undertake their own public education and awareness programs.
The Registrar and the Copyright Officer from the PNG IP Office visited IP Australia from 17 - 19 July 2006. Discussions focused on the development of public education and awareness programs, the development of supporting resources and to undertake training to support the management of web sites.
IP Australia hosted a senior delegation from the Nepal IP office on 15-17 February 2006, as the final phase of the AusAID funded institutional development project.
Senior officials from the Malaysia IP Office (MyIPO) visited IP Australia in March 2006. Presentations and discussions concentrated on new kinds of trade marks, an area of concern for MyIPO.
IP Australia, in conjunction with the IP Office of Singapore and the Hong Kong IP Department, delivered an APEC IPR Public Education and Awareness Platform project in 2006. The project equipped developing APEC Member Economies with the skills, tools and resources to implement public education and awareness campaigns which promote the protection and enforcement of IPR in the region. The principal activities of the project were:
• A workshop on Effective Strategies for IPR Public Education to share experiences and knowledge on IPR campaigns with developing economies – November 2006 in Hong Kong, China.
• An online communications platform of IPR public education and awareness resources, which can be tailored to meet the needs of developing economies –delivered just prior to the workshop in November 2006
IP Australia hosted a workshop on the Development of a Regional Approach to the Management of Intellectual Property, Suva, Fiji, 6 – 10 March 2006 for Pacific Island Countries. Subsequent to the workshop, IP Australia and Pacific Island Countries developed a draft agreement to establish a regional trademark application system for the Pacific.
Main trademark and industrial property information magazines/journals published in the country or region of the Office
All journals and official notices & online services
https://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/ols/ecentre/content/olsHome.jsp
IX. Other general information related to the Office that is available on the Internet -- URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that:
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annual reports and publications
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/resources/forms_general.shtml
contain trademark-related news regarding the Office
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X. Other relevant matters