Form · Intellectual Property — Patents, Trade Marks, Copyright, Designs
Invention disclosure and confidentiality record (before a patent filing)
A form inventors complete before a patent application: the problem and solution, how it works and variations, contributors and their employers, AI tools used, prior art known, every disclosure made or planned, and the confidentiality steps, with the 12-month grace period check.
- Kind
- Form. A form to complete, or a guide to completing an official one.
- Where it applies
- Australia
- AI use
- Yellow AI can help in set ways. A lawyer checks specific points before use.
- Law stated as at
- 18 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 18 October 2026 against the 2 authorities it cites, for Australia.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use as soon as an employee, researcher or founder thinks they have something patentable, and before any pitch, publication, conference, sale or demonstration. It gives the patent attorney what they need for a provisional or complete application and records who contributed.
Used for these tasks
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
AI may help inventors organise their description, figures and disclosure history into the form inside the approved environment; the patent attorney or lawyer decides inventorship, the effect of any disclosure and the filing strategy.
AI may
- Organise the inventors' notes, drawings and lab or code records into the form's sections
- Build the disclosure history table from emails, slide decks and event registrations supplied
- Flag any disclosure within the last 12 months and any planned disclosure before filing
AI must not
- Must not be given the invention in a tool outside the approved, confidential environment, because that may itself be a disclosure risk
- Must not decide who is an inventor or whether the invention is new or inventive
- Must not decide that a disclosure is covered by the grace period
The lawyer checks
- Inventors identified by contribution to the inventive concept, and any AI contribution recorded and considered
- Ownership traced: employment contracts, university or collaboration IP policies, contractor agreements
- Every past disclosure assessed, and filing timed inside the grace period and before any planned disclosure, with overseas filing plans considered
- Confidentiality agreements in place with everyone who has seen the invention
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
Read the full text
The full text is for signed-in accounts. It is free. When you sign in you can:
- read the whole precedent, with its drafting notes beside it;
- copy it, or download it as a Word file or Markdown;
- add it to your firm’s knowledge base, so colleagues can find it;
- let the AI tools you connect read it from that knowledge base.
The summary, the law it rests on and the AI-use guidance above stay public. Privacy.
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