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The Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Productivity Commission Response Part 2 and Other Measures) Act 2020 received Royal Assent on 26 February 2020, setting in train a phase-out of the innovation patent system. New (non-divisional) innovation patents can no longer be filed, and the time to final expiry of all innovation patents is now:
For further details of the legislation, read the full report here.