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Any comments sofa-r? Government response on Designs consultation

21 November 2019

When, in May of 2012, the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP) was set the mammoth task, the Australian designs system had been operating without review since its inception, some 8 years prior.

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Competition law reforms take effect

7 November 2017

By James Gould

After four years of consultation and debate, some of the most significant reforms to Australia’s competition laws came into effect yesterday.

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Counter-productive? Australia’s Productivity Commission releases Final Report into Australia’s Intellectual Property Arrangements

21 December 2016

By Luke Hawthorne

Yesterday, Australia’s Productivity Commission released their Final Report into Australia's Intellectual Property Arrangements.

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Britannia rules in favour of new competition class actions regime

1 October 2015

By Emma White

New UK class actions regime for competition and consumer takes effect

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Government announces economic analysis of ALRC copyright recommendations

13 August 2015

By Anna Spies

Yesterday, the Government announced that it has commissioned an economic analysis of some of the recommendations made by the Australian Law Reform Commission in its Copyright and the Digital Economy Report.

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The Harper Review (IP Update)

2 April 2015

By Daniella Phair

We previously reported on the Competition Policy Review Panel’s Draft Report on the effectiveness of Australia’s current competition laws and policy (see our earlier post here).

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ACIP’s Review of the Designs Systems proposes three approaches to reform

22 January 2015

By Josh Gottlieb

In 2012, the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP) was tasked by the Government with conducting a review of the operation and effectiveness of the Designs Act 2003 (Cth) in supporting innovation. Late last year, ACIP released its Options Paper on the Designs Act (available online here). The Options Paper proposed three approaches to reform.

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Election countdown: pre-election Bills wait in the legislative queue

10 July 2013

By Samantha Barrett

Pre-election consumer and competition reform: food labelling, supermarket dominance and competition reform are high on the agenda.

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