1. As a Commonwealth country, Australia’s trademark legal system adheres to British law, is deeply influenced by British trademark law, and clearly bears the imprint of the British trademark legal system. With the revision of the British Trademark Law, Australia also revised its earliest promulgated Commercial Law of 1955 in 1994. In 1995, Australia revised its trademark law again. The 1995 Trademark Law officially came into effect on January 1, 1996, and at the same time the 1955 Trademark Law and the 1994 Trademark Law were abolished.

2. Australia currently adopts the first-to-register principle, taking into account the first-to-use principle. In other words, the first-to-registration principle is the main one, supplemented by the first-to-use principle.

3. Australia accepts registration applications for commodity trademarks, service marks, series trademarks, certification marks, collective marks, defensive marks, color combination marks, three-dimensional marks, scent marks and sound marks.

4. Australia adopts the Nice Agreement on the International Classification of Goods and Services for Trademark Registration.

5. Australia is a member of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, the Nice Agreement on the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purpose of Trademark Registration, the Madrid Protocol, and the World Intellectual Property Organization.