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Statistics: changes in terms of application filings and grants (registrations) with respect to previous year; trends or areas experiencing rapid changes
Year | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
Applications | 7165 | 7462 | 7838 | 7715 | 7302 | 7047 |
Registrations | 6332 | 7079 | 7386 | 7330 | 6635 | 6590 |
Certifications | 998 | 1001 | 1110 | 1288 | 979 | 1229 |
More information and analysis can be found here in the IP report. https://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/ip-report-2020/designs
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The Office's Designs bibliographic data and images are maintained on our Rights in One (RiO), a Pega system, and Oracle database.
Australian registered designs are published in the Australian Official Journal of Designs http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/ols/edesign/epublish/search_page.jsp
Bibliographic data and images for registered designs post 1985 are are available, free of charge, in Australian Design Search, which has replaced the old Australian Designs Data Searching (ADDS) system.
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Bibliographic data and images for registered designs post 1985 1985 are available, free of charge, in Australian Design Search.
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Order Management Workbench (OMW) is a web-based interface which allows formalities staff to enter paper-based applications and manually correct issues and errors with filings. It is a bespoke java application.
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IP Australia’s legacy systems have been moved off premises and moved into offsite, commercial shared data centres and high available containerised architecture has been applied to majority of critical business applications.
Remote Access: Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdowns required most staff to work from home (WFH) for an extended period. Reliance on, and capability for remote access matured quickly. IP Australia implemented a Future Ways Of Working program in 2019 to facilitate more geographically diverse staff, allowing more staff to work from home more often. As this capability was established prior to the pandemic, IPA was able to pivot to WFH during lockdowns as compared to other organisations without remote working capability.
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2020-2021 efforts have been hindered by COVID-19 and we have had to ‘pivot’ - shifting priorities to deliver information via virtual channels. We have increased our number of on-demand webinars and have a robust plan in place to keep developing new material. We have increased use of our social media channels, in particular : LinkedIn and Facebook, (https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=IP%20australia) with an emphasis on directing businesses to the content on our website and to the on-demand webinars and virtual sessions we run with partners.
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