Indonesia Intellectual Property Office Announces Latest Trademark Data

< p > when it comes to intellectual property matters in Indonesia, it is impossible to obtain the latest and reliable data.

Therefore, the Indonesia Intellectual Property Office (DGIP) is welcomed by its latest trademark data released through its website, official statement and annual report.

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< p > data show that the trademark application in Indonesia has been kept at a higher level in 2013, even though the data have been growing at a two digit rate in the past few years.

Although the volume of trademark applications in Indonesia is in a period of steady growth, it is still the largest number of trademark applications in Southeast Asian countries.

From a deeper level, these statistics reveal some vivid trends and interesting information.

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< p > according to a spokesman for DGIP, in 2013, the Indonesia Trademark Office received a total of 62813 trademark applications, compared with 62455 in 2012, a slight increase of 0.57%.

The interesting thing about the steady growth of trademark applications last year is that since 2010, the number of trademark applications has increased by at least 11% per year, or even increased by 17.4% from 2011 to 2012.

In the past 10 years, the number of trademark applications in Indonesia has increased by nearly 200%, from 20660 in 2003 to 62813 in 2013.

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< p > for example, according to the world's < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > intellectual property < /a > Organization (WIPO) data, in 2012, in Southeast Asian countries, Thailand ranked behind Indonesia, and its trademark application amount was 44963, followed by Vietnam, 34341, followed by Philippines, 20202, and Singapore, 20150 (no Malaysia 2012 data).

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< p > but a further observation of the source of Indonesia trademark application found an interesting fact.

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< p > for the four Southeast Asian countries listed above, the percentage of trademark applications submitted by non residents in 2012 is between 34% (Vietnam) and 77% (Singapore).

The situation in the past few years is also very similar.

Although data on Indonesia in 2012 and 2013 are still unavailable, data from DGIP indicate that the volume of trademark applications submitted by non Indonesia entities has only accounted for 5% to 11% of the total applications.

For example, only 2543 of the 53196 trademark applications filed in 2011 were submitted by non Indonesia entities (nearly 4.8%).

Although this percentage is slightly higher in previous years, it is still very low compared with other Southeast Asian countries.

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< p > in Indonesia, the fact that the amount of trademark application submitted by foreign entities is less and the fact that more domestic entities submit is a reflection of various problems.

First, there is a persistent problem of trademark rush registration.

Indonesia people have always been very aware of the value of trademarks, although in some cases this awareness is too strong. Because of this, the historical problems of trademark piracy and other malicious trademark registration have been extended to this day.

In the past few years, the volume of trademark applications submitted by non Indonesia entities is quite low in the total volume of applications, so this trend of bad trademark registration is likely to continue.

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The problem of "P" is that all registered trademarks in Indonesia will be more and more hindering the registration of foreign trademarks in Indonesia.

Therefore, it is still not easy for foreign enterprises to get their < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > trademark registration < /a > in Indonesia.

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< p > the above situation may become worse as Indonesia joins the Madrid system in 2015 or later, because the volume of trademark applications submitted by foreign entities is expected to increase after joining the Madrid system.

As a result, more and more foreign trademark applicants will have to resort to trademark revocation in order to regain their trademarks in Indonesia or to get rid of their trademarks. However, this requires foreign trademark owners to pay higher time and money.

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< p > > a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > Indonesia < /a > the intellectual property office first announced the classification statistics of trademark application based on Nice classification.

According to the data in 2012, 4134 trademark applications were submitted under the twenty-fifth categories of products, which were the largest number of applicants in the year.

Followed by thirtieth categories and thirty-fifth categories, the application volume was 3611 and 3099 respectively.

Ranked fourth and fifth were 09 and 05, with 2847 applications and 2647 applications respectively.

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< p > although in other jurisdictions, the above data will only be regarded as limited information, but for Indonesia, these data are the most complete trademark data that can be obtained at present.

From these data, we can not only have a clear understanding of trademark applications in Southeast Asia's most populous countries, but also see in Indonesia who submitted the most trademark applications and trademark applications under what category of products.

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Besides P, we can also see that foreign trademark applicants will take the initiative to submit trademark applications in Indonesia as soon as possible, so as to avoid the time-consuming and time-consuming difficulties caused by the continuous enthusiasm of trademark registration in Indonesia.

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