Australia Plans To Abolish The System of Innovative Patent

2017/12/08

Recently, as for the investigation report about Australia IP system made by Australia Productivity Commission, Australian government published its answer externally. The suggestions put forward in the above report includes: to abolish its system of innovative patent, further improve the threshold standard of patent creativity steps etc. At present, the government is revising 1990 Patent Law and then to abolish the system of innovative patent. The government has clearly expressed that it will continually explore new mechanism in order to help small and medium enterprises to learn and make full use of their own IP, and ensure the reasonable use of IP and acquire adequate protection.