The Minister of Laws and Human Rights of the Republic of Indonesia, Yasonna Laoly, had officially appointed members of Patent as well as Trademark Appeal Commissions for the 2024-2027 tenure, during an inauguration ceremony that took place at the main hall of the Ministry’s headquarters in Jakarta on February 6, 2024. The Patent Appeal Commission […]
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President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, or Jokowi, recently signed a new Presidential Regulation (Peraturan Presiden/Perpres), under the long title “Presidential Regulation no. 32 of 2024 concerning Digital Platform Corporate Responsibilities in supporting Quality Journalism”. The Perpres was officially enacted on February 20, 2024, and since the drafting stage it has been known
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The National Collective Management Organization (LMKN) had officially announcement on the total collected amount of royalties for musical performing rights throughout the 2023 fiscal year. The announcement was made during the two-days 2024 Annual Coordination Meeting of LMKN that was held at the Ministry of Laws and Human Rights compound in South Jakarta on January
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Indonesian consumer electronics company, PT Hartono Istana Teknologi – more famously known as its primary brand, Polytron – has recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Belgian nanoelectronics R&D company IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectrics Centre) for the purpose of providing Indonesian youths trainings in semiconductor chips design. According to the company’s representative, Joegianto, in a
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An Indonesian cement manufacturer, PT Semen Baturaja, Tbk (SMBR), recently has been successful in obtaining patent protection in Indonesia for its invention on white clay. The patent was granted on October 10, 2023, by the Directorate General of Intellectual Property (DGIP) and is assigned registration number IDP000090055. The invention for which the patent is filed
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The intellectual property office of Indonesia – Directorate General of Intellectual Property (DGIP) – recently held the 71st ASEAN Working Group on Intellectual Property Cooperation (AWGIPC), which took place in Lombok, one major island of the archipelagic province of West Nusa Tenggara. The event itself is a regular forum where delegates from national intellectual property
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Indonesia’s law on copyright, the Law no. 28 of 2014 concerning Copyright is becoming the object of yet another judicial review at the Constitutional Court, after the failure of one major music label’s lawsuit last year to revoke Articles 18 and 25 of the law related to reversionary rights. This time the judicial review lawsuit
Directorate General of Intellectual Property (DGIP) of the Ministry of Laws and Human Rights of the Republic of Indonesia recently organized a three-days event entitled “Festival Merek (Festival of Marks)”. The event, which was held at the main outdoor ground of the ministry’s HQ – called the “Red Square” – in Jakarta from 23 to
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The Supreme Court of the Republic in a recent decision rejected a cassation from an individual named Hasan Azhari who sued GoJek, an Indonesian multi-service platform and digital payment technology company, for an alleged copyright infringement. Gojek started in 2009 as a call center for connecting consumers to two-wheeled courier delivery or ride-hailing services, and
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The Directorate General of Intellectual Property (DGIP), Ministry of Laws and Human Rights, in its headquarter in Kuningan area, South Jakarta, granted an audience to Jessamyn Honculada, an expert from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), who was on the mission to report the outcome of a research conducted by WIPO as requested by the
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