BSBIPR501A Manage intellectual property to protect and grow business

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for BSBIPR501A ended on 23 March 2015 — 11 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 25 March 2016 — 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
BSB07 — Business Services Training Package
Currency period ends
23 March 2015
Latest release
Release 1 · 10 March 2009
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
BSBIPR501 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. BSBIPR501ASuperseded — equivalentManage intellectual property to protect and grow business
  2. equivalent
  3. BSBIPR501Superseded — not equivalentManage intellectual property to protect and grow business
  4. not equivalent
  5. 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

Is BSBIPR501A on your scope?

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Where BSBIPR501A is used

training.gov.au lists BSBIPR501A inside 22 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for BSBIPR501A in that product.

Products no longer current 22 listed

The register still records BSBIPR501A 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 productTypeBSBIPR501A is
BSB50207Diploma of BusinessQualificationelective
BSB50507Diploma of FranchisingQualificationelective
BSB51107Diploma of ManagementQualificationelective
BSBSS00003Copyright Skill SetSkill setelective
BSBSS00005Design Protection Skill SetSkill setelective
BSBSS00010Intellectual Property Strategic Management Skill SetSkill setelective
BSBSS00016Patent Skill SetSkill setelective
BSBSS00025Trade Mark Skill SetSkill setelective
CUA50413Diploma of Live Production and Technical ServicesQualificationelective
CUA50513Diploma of Live Production DesignQualificationelective
Show the remaining 12 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeBSBIPR501A is
CUA60213Advanced Diploma of Live Production and Management ServicesQualificationelective
CUE60103Advanced Diploma of Design for Live Production, Theatre and EventsQualificationelective
CUE60203Advanced Diploma of Live Production, Theatre and Events (Technical Production)Qualificationelective
CUE60403Advanced Diploma of Venues and EventsQualificationelective
CUV50111Diploma of Visual ArtsQualificationelective
CUV50211Diploma of CeramicsQualificationelective
CUV50613Diploma of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Visual Arts Industry WorkQualificationelective
CUV60211Advanced Diploma of Visual ArtsQualificationelective
CUV60411Advanced Diploma of Graphic DesignQualificationelective
MEM50311Diploma of Jewellery and Object DesignQualificationelective
MEM60211Advanced Diploma of Jewellery and Object DesignQualificationelective
SIT60212Advanced Diploma of EventsQualificationelective

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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