The count continues but President Joko Widodo looks set to win with a 55% majority.

The idea of creating regional ASEAN IP offices has been floated before; principally in the early 2000s.

WIPO and Singapore's IP office (IPOS) launched a special IP mediation service earlier this year, called the Enhanced Mediation Promotion Scheme (EMPS).

This guide provides an overview of the legal system in Indonesia, foreign investment restrictions, currency regulations and incentives, and business vehicles and their relevant restrictions and liabilities.

A person called Hardiman has filed a trademark suit against Chelsea Football Club Limited (Chelsea FC) at the Central Jakarta Commercial Court.

In August 2020, research by Nick Redfearn and our Enforcement team was published by the World Trademark Review revealing that exports of counterfeit goods from China are increasingly heading to Southeast Asia at rapid rate.

The Madrid trademark system has been operating in Indonesia since 2 January 2018. By March 2019, over 8,000 international applications have designated Indonesia.

Trade name infringement is a headache in much of Asia.

The Indonesian Government recently enacted Government Regulation No. 24 of 2022 on the implementing regulation to the Creative Economy Law.

Its been a long some coming but adoption of the Hague Agreement for design filing is now coming in SE Asia.

The publication of the OECD/EUIPO updated report Trends in Trade in Counterfeit and Pirated Goods provides more data and corroboration on the role of SE Asia in the global fakes trade.

The Swedish company hasn't suffered quite the major loss that has been reported in the media, and it doesn't need to rebrand its shop, but the legal details behind it are interesting.

November 2022 marks the official roll out of the Indonesia Trade Mark office's trade mark renewal process.

The bifurcation of validity and infringement is a common problem in many, usually civil law countries.

A conference called "Handling Infringement of Domain Names as to IP Rights" was held on 21 July by the Ministry of Science and Technology Inspectorate and Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology.

Indonesia's problem of trademark piracy has reared its head again. This time, DC Comics lost a recovation case against Marxing Fam Makmur‘s SUPERMAN trademark.

The US government announced its US Special 301 review last week, and perhaps the most interesting question is whether President Donald Trump's US protectionist policies

A second Customs IP seizure has occurred in Indonesia. On Wednesday 7 October, Customs Officers seized 185 cartons containing 390,000 GILLETTE...

The Madrid Protocol along with the Madrid Agreement, gives the legal basis to the Madrid System which is the primary method of international registration of trademarks in multiple Jurisdictions.

Recently, the Customs Office seized suspected fake pens from entering the territory of the Republic of Indonesia.