USPTO Significantly Increases Fees From January 2025

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced significant fee changes for US IP rights, effective from 18 January 2025.  PatentsOn top of an increase of about 7.5% to most patent fees, significant increases and new fees have been introduced to incentivize efficient patent prosecution strategies and reduce the burden on patent examiners. …
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Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick Celebrates 30 Years in Sydney

This year, Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick (POF) proudly marks our 30th anniversary in the Sydney office. This milestone provides an opportunity to reflect on POF’s growth and to recognise where we are today. “Our Sydney office opened in Chatswood in 1994 following ever-increasing demand from our Sydney and NSW-based clients.  We are very pleased that our …
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Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick Expanding Presence to Brisbane

Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick is pleased to announce that from January 2025, we will have Helen McFadzean, a lead principal in our Electronics, Physics, and Information Technology team located in Brisbane. “We are very excited to announce our upcoming office opening in Brisbane.  The new Brisbane office will add to our existing offices in Melbourne, Adelaide …
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Don’t Request Examination Of Design Registrations For Display Screens, GUIs And Icons…….Yet!

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IP Australia has recently proposed several updates of the Australian Registered Designs system. The proposed updates include allowing certification of design registrations for display screens, graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and icons. This will remove a current anomaly with the system, whereby design registrations can be obtained for display screens, GUIs and icons, but these registrations …
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Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick Named Among Diversity Council Australia’s 2024 – 2025 Inclusive Employers

We are pleased to announce that Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick has been recognised as a Diversity Council of Australia (DCA) Inclusive Employer for 2024-2025. This is POF’s second time applying for and receiving inclusive employer recognition after being awarded the status for the first time in 2021 – 2022. To achieve this recognition, POF participated in the …
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Proposed Updates to the Australian Designs System

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In mid-2023, IP Australia sought public comments on proposals to expand the Australian registered designs system to allow for the protection of virtual designs, partial designs and incremental designs. A link to our earlier article discussing these proposed changes is provided here.  Thirty-six (36) submissions were received by IP Australia from a range of stakeholders, …
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Congratulations to Our New Principal: Duncan Joiner

Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick is thrilled to announce the elevation of Duncan Joiner to be a Principal of the firm. Duncan has been a member of the Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick Engineering team for many years and is primarily involved in drafting and prosecuting patent applications in Australia and around the world for both local and international clients. …
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