Here’s wishing all our readers a happy new year in 2016! We hope it proves to be another good year for IP in Indonesia.
We have received a number of enquiries about the new patent and trademarks laws we were expecting to see passed in 2015. Both were included in the 2015 National Legislation Program (see our post here). However, the House of Representatives did not have a good year, and of a total of 37 listed priority laws (which included the trademark and patent laws) it managed to pass only three (see Jakarta Post article here).
Sources at the Directorat-General of Intellectual Property are (informally) saying that they expect the laws will be passed around March 2016.
