Last week IP Australia announced that it received the first patent application though their new business to business channel. This service allows larger organizations to lodge high volume business transactions through a secure internet channel, where the transaction fees are automatically paid. The information is then loaded into IP Australia’s business system for processing.

The IP Australia press-release lists the following benefits for attorney firms using the business to business channel:

• “reduction in the time and costs involved in lodging patent applications;
• reduction in risk that the application could be lost in transit or miss a lodgement date due to a courier stuck in traffic; and
• the service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, (except during standard system maintenance periods meaning when you’re ready to file, so is IP Australia.”

“IP Australia initially established a B2B reference group comprising IP attorneys and firms interested in pursuing electronic service delivery such as Phillips Ormonde and Fitzpatrick [whose independent service company, IP Organisers, produces IP Menu], Spruson and Ferguson, FB Rice, Davies Collison Cave, and CPA Software Solutions.”

Source and further information

IP Australia Press Release - IP Australia receives first business to business transaction