Did you know?Intellectual PropertyIntellectual property is a term often used to refer generically to property rights created through intellectual and/or discovery efforts. Business and company namesIt is a misconception that your registration of a business or company name will give you a proprietary right with respect to that name. Trade mark registration procedureThere are numerous steps that need to be taken for a trade mark to become registered. |
What can be registered as a design?
For a design to be capable of registration in Australia, it must be new and distinctive. The term ‘new’ requires that an identical design (or one very similar) has not been publicly used in Australia, nor has it been published in a document within, or outside Australia. A design will be ‘distinctive’ unless it is substantially similar in overall appearance to other designs already in the public domain. |
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