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The TTIPAB provides tools and resources to help patents and trade marks attorneys with their registration, or re-registration, processes. We also maintain an attorney database for the public who may be searching for an IP professional registered in Australia, or seeking further information about an IP professional.


  FAQs

Incorporation registration

  • Why become incorporated?
  • Where is the form to register as an incorporated patent or trade marks attorney?
  • Why do I need to have insurance?
  • How much professional indemnity insurance do we need to incorporate?

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  Forms

Individual attorneys

  • Reg 20.9 Application for exemption from topic group B
  • Reg 20.9 Application for exemption in topic group A1 - legal process
  • Reg 20.9 Application for exemption from topic group I

Incorporated attorneys

  • Change of Director for an Incorporated Trade Mark Attorney
  • Application for Voluntary Removal of an Incorporated Patent Attorney and or Incorporated Trade Marks Attorney from the Register(s)
  • Application for Restoration of an Incorporated Patent and or Incorporated Trade Marks Attorney's Name to the Register(s)


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  Legislation

Patent attorneys

  • Patents Regulations 1991
  • Patents Act 1990

Trade marks attorneys

  • Trade Marks Act 1995
  • Trade Marks Regulations 1995

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