BSBIPR501 Manage intellectual property to protect and grow business

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for BSBIPR501 ended on 17 October 2020 — 5 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 19 October 2021 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

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Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
BSB — Business Services Training Package
Currency period ends
17 October 2020
Latest release
Release 1 · 25 March 2015
Supersedes
BSBIPR501A
Superseded by
BSBESB406 not equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. BSBIPR501Superseded — not equivalentManage intellectual property to protect and grow business
  2. not equivalent
  3. BSBESB406CurrentEstablish operational strategies and procedures for new business ventures

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • BSBIPR501ABSBIPR501equivalent24 March 2015

    Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages Minor edits to clarify the intent of Performance Criteria

  • BSBIPR501BSBESB406not equivalent18 October 2020

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Is BSBIPR501 on your scope?

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Where BSBIPR501 is used

training.gov.au lists BSBIPR501 inside 21 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for BSBIPR501 in that product.

Products no longer current 21 listed

The register still records BSBIPR501 inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypeBSBIPR501 is
BSB50215Diploma of BusinessQualificationelective
BSB50515Diploma of FranchisingQualificationelective
BSB51915Diploma of Leadership and ManagementQualificationelective
BSB51918Diploma of Leadership and ManagementQualificationelective
BSB52315Diploma of GovernanceQualificationelective
BSB52318Diploma of GovernanceQualificationelective
BSB52415Diploma of Marketing and CommunicationQualificationelective
BSBSS00035Copyright Skill SetSkill setelective
BSBSS00037Design Protection Skill SetSkill setelective
BSBSS00042Intellectual Property Strategic Management Skill SetSkill setelective
Show the remaining 11 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeBSBIPR501 is
BSBSS00048Patent Skill SetSkill setelective
BSBSS00057Trade Mark Skill SetSkill setelective
CUA50415Diploma of Live Production and Technical ServicesQualificationelective
CUA50513Diploma of Live Production DesignQualificationelective
CUA50615Diploma of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Visual Arts Industry WorkQualificationelective
CUA51115Diploma of Visual ArtsQualificationelective
CUA51215Diploma of CeramicsQualificationelective
CUA60213Advanced Diploma of Live Production and Management ServicesQualificationelective
CUA60315Advanced Diploma of Graphic DesignQualificationelective
CUA60515Advanced Diploma of Music IndustryQualificationcore
CUA60715Advanced Diploma of Visual ArtsQualificationelective

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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