Australia - New IP Resource: AusPat

IP Australia has released a new system for searching for Australian patents, called AusPat.

AusPat is now IP Australia's official source of online data, which means that the previous systems Patsearch and PATADMIN will no longer need to be used.

"In this release you can:

• Search for applications managed in PATADMIN and PAMS systems through the Quick, Structured or Advanced search interfaces
• Use any of the 20 search fields
• Use the Name Selector to find variants of Applicant and Inventor names
• View, sort and print the results of your search in the “Search Results” page
• Customise the “Search Results” page by adding, removing or rearranging columns"

"In future releases you will have access to:

• Additional opposition, ownership and publication data
• Full text searching of applications back to 1904
• eJournal – Search, browse and print information from AU Journals
• eRegister – Search, browse and print information from the Australian Patent Register
• eCase – public access to patent case files that are deemed Open for Public Inspection"

AusPat is available at: http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/auspat/

References and for further information

IP Australia news - AusPat - Australia's new patent search system

IP Australia - AusPat User's Guide