This site provides information about Australian patents. It also provides access to two databases for patents and patent applications filed since January 1979.
Over 1 million applications, representing 20 years of the most important technological advances, are now available for free consultation. New technologies are often disclosed for the first time as international patent applications. The patent applications filed under WIPO's Patent Cooperation Treaty system and accessible through the PatentScope service, are typically those that inventors consider to be the most valuable and therefore worth patenting internationally.
