IPRIA has just published its most recent Australian Developments Bulletin (the email has come out, the website doesn’t appear to reflect this yet, but will go up here). Reading through it, one thing that jumps out is the number of reviews going on at the moment (and here’s me thinking that we’d had enough in the last little while….). So amongst the announced reviews are:

  1. The AIC intellectual property crime and enforcement research: which I’ve already mentioned on this blog;
  2. an ACIP review of post-grant patent enforcement strategies; in which ACIP expects to circulate an Issues Paper in late September 2006 with a request for written submissions in early December 2006. ACIP also expects to hold consultations in early 2007; and
  3. an ACIP review of enforcement of plant breeders’ rights, in which ACIP expects to circulate an Issues Paper in early October 2006 with a request for written submissions in early December 2006. ACIP also expects to hold consultations in early 2007.

Is anyone else detecting a theme? (oh, and if you are wondering where poor old trade mark is in all of this, we had that review, relatively recently, by ACIP, although the final report wasn’t, in the end, all that much about enforcement. See here).