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• Intelligence Services Amendment (Establishment of the Australian Signals Directorate) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Intelligence Services Act 2001

  to: establish the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) as an independent statutory agency within the Defence portfolio reporting directly to the Minister for Defence; amend ASD’s functions to include providing material, advice and other assistance to prescribed persons or bodies, and preventing and disrupting cybercrime; require the Director-General of ASD to brief the Leader of the Opposition about matters relating to ASD; and give the Director-General powers to employ persons as employees of ASD; and 18 Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Intelligence Services (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 2001 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Foreign Affairs portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Mar 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Patents Act 1990

  to: implement the Protocol amending the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property to enable Australian pharmaceutical manufacturers to supply developing countries with generic versions of patented medicines; and make technical amendments;

  Plant Breeder’s Rights Act 1994

  to enable the owners of plant breeder’s rights in a plant variety with the option to take action in the Federal Circuit Court against alleged infringers;

  Designs Act 2003

  ,

  Patents Act 1990

  ,

  Plant Breeder’s Rights Act 1994

  and

  Trade Marks Act 1995

  to provide for a single trans-Tasman patent attorney regime and single patent application and examination processes for Australia and New Zealand; and

  Designs Act 2003

  ,

  Patents Act 1990

  and

  Trade Marks Act 1995

  to remove document retention requirements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Mar 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Tourism and Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Patents Act 1990

  ,

  Trade Marks Act 1995

  ,

  Plant Breeder’s Rights Act 1994

  ,

  Designs Act 2003

  and

  Olympic Insignia Protection Act 1987

  to: give effect to certain recommendations of 3 reviews of intellectual property legislation; and make minor and technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Tourism and Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Patents Act 1990

  ,

  Trade Marks Act 1995

  and

  Designs Act 1906

  to clarify that errors or omission by persons such as independent contractors, employed by the Commissioner of Patents, Registrar of Trade Marks or Registrar of Designs, are encompassed by the existing extension of time provisions;

  Patents Act 1990

  in relation to disclosure of information to the Commissioner of Patents that is relevant to the patentability of an invention;

  Trade Marks Act 1995

  to: amend the definition of “employee”; and remove the term “trade marks officer”; and

  Patents Amendment (Innovation Patents) Act 2000

  to correct a drafting error. Also contains an application provision. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill 1998

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Nov 1997 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Science and Tourism portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Bill 2011 [2012]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jun 2011 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Innovation, Industry, Science and Research 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Patents Act 1990

  in relation to: the thresholds set for the grant of a patent; and exempting patent infringement of research and experimental activities;

  Patents Act 1990

  and

  Trade Marks Act 1995

  to: reduce delays in finalising patent and trade mark applications; enable trade marks and patent attorneys to practise through a corporate structure; and extend to trade marks and patent attorneys the same ‘advice’ privilege available to legal professionals;

  Copyright Act 1968

  and

  Trade Marks Act 1995

  in relation to the enforcement regime for counterfeit trade mark and copyright goods; and

  Designs Act 2003

  ,

  Patents Act 1990

  ,

  Plant Breeder’s Rights Act 1994

  and

  Trade Marks Act 1995

  to provide that the intellectual property rights system can adapt to the electronic and global business environments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Productivity Commission Response Part 2 and Other Measures) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Patents Act 1990

  to: introduce an objects clause; phase out the innovation patent system; replace the 'reasonable requirements of the public' test in relation to applications for a compulsory licence with a public interest test; provide that only the patentee of a dependent patent can seek a compulsory licence over the use of the original patent; provide for 'omnibus claims' in patent specifications to be removed at stages of consideration subsequent to examination; clarify the Commissioner of Patents' power to redact sensitive information from patent documents; remove the requirement to file a certificate of verification for documents translated into English, unless required by the regulations; clarify that Crown use can be invoked for the provision of a service that any Commonwealth, state or territory government has the primary responsibility for providing or funding; require governments to seek negotiated outcomes with patent owners before invoking Crown use; and require ministerial authorisation for invoking Crown use if a negotiated outcome is unsuccessful or in emergency situations;

  Designs Act 2003

  to modify provisions relating to Crown use consistently with the changes to the

  Patents Act 1990

  ; and

  Patents Act 1990

  and

  Trade Marks Act 1995

  to enable the Patent Office and Trade Mark Office to keep and use their official seal in electronic form when supplying electronic certified copies of documents to customers. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Productivity Commission Response Part 1 and Other Measures) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Jobs and Innovation 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Copyright Act 1968

  and

  Trade Marks Act 1995

  to clarify the circumstances in which the parallel importation of trade marked goods does not infringe a registered trade mark; the

  Plant Breeder’s Rights Act 1994

  to allow an application for an essentially derived variety (EDV) declaration to be made in instances where the plant variety the subject of the EDV application is not a registered Plant Breeder’s Right or undergoing application for Plant Breeder’s Right; the

  Trade Marks Act 1995

  to reduce from five to three years the period that must elapse before certain actions of non-use actions of trade mark can be taken; the

  Patents Act 1990

  to remove a requirement for patentees to provide the secretary of the department with certain data relating to pharmaceutical patents with an extended term; and six Acts to: streamline and align intellectual property (IP) processes in relation to the administration of the Australian IP system; and make minor amendments. Also repeals the

  Patents Amendment (Patent Cooperation Treaty) Act 1979

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Border Interception) Bill 1999

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Aug 1999 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Science and Resources portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum