On 22 January 2015, Arts Law submitted its response to the Advisory Council on Intellectual Propertys (ACIP) Review of the Designs System Options Paper.
The ACIP has been tasked by the Federal Government with conducting a review of the workability of the current Australian designs system under the Designs Act 2003 (Designs Act) and determining how best to improve it. The registered design system in Australia is concerned with protecting the visual appearance of a manufactured product, for example, a chair or lamp. The public were asked to respond to an Issues Paper in November 2013 (see Arts Law’s response here) from which the ACIP prepared an Options Paper in December 2014 that poses three alternatives to enhance the designs system.
http://www.artslaw.com.au/news/entry/arts-law-supports-revising-copyright-design-overlap-provision/