Welcome to the Corporate Plan 2025–26
Our Strategic Corporate Plan 2025–26 considers the activities and initiatives that will help us achieve our purpose over this period. It guides us to meet emerging challenges, seize opportunities and satisfy our customers' needs and expectations.
Michael Schwager
Director General, IP Australia
As the Accountable Authority for IP Australia, I am pleased to present our 2025–26 Strategic Corporate Plan, which covers the periods of 2025–26 to 2028–29, as required under paragraph s35(1)(b) of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.
In developing this Strategic Corporate Plan, we have considered the activities and agency initiatives that will support the government's objectives and help us achieve our purpose: enabling Australians to benefit from great ideas by providing a world-leading IP system.
Intellectual property (IP) rights created around new inventions and brands are key drivers of Australian innovation, productivity and trade. To thrive amidst increasing geopolitical instability, our economy must become more productive, resilient and sustainable. Australia's IP system plays a crucial role in this transition, by helping innovators attract critical resources, access and implement new ideas, and respond to changes in market opportunities and conditions.
As stewards of the IP system, we need to nurture a strong innovation ecosystem that helps Australian ideas, industries and emerging technologies to thrive. Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming our world and we are committed to innovating to improve the accessibility of the IP rights system and efficiency of its administration through its responsible use. We will also continue our exploration and consultation on the policy implications of AI for the IP system, including the patentability of AI computer implemented inventions.
This year, we will develop our new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Strategy. The new strategy will enable innovation and data-driven decision-making, align with emerging technologies and leverage AI and automation to improve our delivery, while safeguarding our cyber security. The ICT Strategy will be closely linked to our People Strategy 2024–2027, ensuring we have the right skills, capabilities, and culture to support and maximise the benefits of technological advancements. By integrating our people's expertise with technological capabilities, we can ensure the successful achievement of our objectives.
Indigenous Knowledge is an important cultural and economic asset belonging to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, their communities, organisations and businesses. We will continue to work with our Indigenous Knowledge Panel, established in 2024, to learn how we can better support the cultural integrity and economic potential of Indigenous Knowledge within the IP system. Our First Nations Strategy provides a framework to ensure that our services, policies and practices are respectful, supportive and inclusive of First Nations peoples.
Our Strategic Corporate Plan will guide us to meet emerging challenges, seize opportunities, and satisfy our customers' needs and expectations. We are proud to continue the important work of delivering and maintaining a world-leading IP system.
Chapters
Agency overview
Understand our programs, performance measures and strategic objectives.Operating context
Learn about our dynamic operating environment, our connections with stakeholders and our key capabilities.Risk oversight and management
Our approach to risk management is about empowering staff and developing a positive risk culture.Performance
Learn about the performance measures that we use to determine whether we are achieving our purpose.Download the report
Strategic Corporate Plan 2025–26
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Compliance
This corporate plan has been prepared in accordance with the requirements set out in section 35 of the PGPA Act. The information below details the matters included to comply with section 16E of the PGPA Rule.
Introduction
PGPA Rule 16E(1)
- Page 3 - The corporate plan for a Commonwealth entity must cover a period of at least 4 reporting periods for the entity.
PGPA Rule 16E(2)1(a)
- Page 3 - The corporate plan must include a statement that the plan is prepared for paragraph 35(1)(b) of the PGPA Act.
PGPA Rule 16E(2)1(b)
- Page 3 - The corporate plan must specify the reporting period for which the plan is prepared.
PGPA Rule 16E(2)1(c)
- Page 3 - The corporate plan must specify the reporting periods covered by the plan.
Purpose
PGPA Rule 16E(2)2
- Page 3–5 - The corporate plan must state the purposes of the entity.
Key Activities
PGPA Rule 16E(2)3
- Page 5 - For the entire period covered by the plan, the corporate plan must outline the key activities that the entity will undertake in order to achieve its purposes.
Operating context
PGPA Rule 16E(2)4(a)
- Page 10 - For the entire period covered by the plan, the corporate plan must state the environment in which the entity will operate.
PGPA Rule 16E(2)4(b)
- Page 12 - For the entire period covered by the plan, the corporate plan must include the strategies and plans the entity will implement to have the capability it needs to undertake its key activities and achieve its purposes.
PGPA Rule 16E(2)4(c)
- Page 13–16 - For the entire period covered by the plan, the corporate plan must include a summary of the risk oversight and management systems of the entity, and the key risks that the entity will manage and how those risks will be managed.
PGPA Rule 16E(2)4(d)
- Page 11 - For the entire period covered by the plan, the corporate plan must include details of any organisation or body that will make a significant contribution towards achieving the entity’s purposes through cooperation with the entity, including how that cooperation will help achieve those purposes.
PGPA Rule 16E(2)4(e)
- For the entire period covered by the plan, the corporate plan must include how any subsidiary of the entity will contribute to achieving the entity’s purposes.
Performance
PGPA Rule 16E(2)5(a)
- Pages 17–23 - For each reporting period covered by the plan, the corporate plan must include details of how the entity’s performance in achieving the purposes will be measured and assessed through specified performance measures of the entity that meet the requirements of section 16EA of the PGPA Rule.
PGPA Rule 16E(2)5(b)
- Pages 17–23 - For each reporting period covered by the plan, the corporate plan must include details of how the entity’s performance in achieving the purposes will be measured and assessed through specified targets for each of those performance measures for which it is reasonably practicable to set a target.
Publication
PGPA Rule 16E(3)
- The corporate plan must be published on the entity's website by the last day of the second month of the reporting period for which the plan is prepared (i.e. 31 August 2023).
- This corporate plan was published as soon as practicable after the plan was prepared.
Distribution
PGPA Rule 16E(5)
- The corporate plan must be given to the responsible Ministers and the Finance Minister as soon as practicable after the plan is prepared, and before the plan is published on the entity's website.
- This corporate plan was given to the responsible Minister, and the Finance Minister prior to publication.