Abstract

In early October 2017, the Indonesian government, represented by the Directorate General of Intellectual Property of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, has officially ratified the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (Madrid Protocol). The ratification is contained in the Presidential Regulation No. 92 of 2017 on Ratification of Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks, 1989. The Presidential Regulation shall be the legal basis of enforcement that regulates the international trademark registration in Indonesia. The concept offered through the international trademark registration system based on the Madrid Protocol is its practicality which passes only one examination, one Language, one currency and it is integrated by the International Bureau administered by WIPO without changing the sovereignty of each member country which ratifies the system. The objective of this paper is to find out how the trademark registration is implemented based on the Madrid Protocol after its ratification in Indonesia and how the system will impact. The results of this paper will be beneficial for the public so that they know the mechanism of the international trademark registration and the impact of this system

Highlights

  • The era development, the rapid current of globalization nowadays is inevitable any more to countries in the world

  • It is necessary that people understand the implementation of trademark registration system since Indonesia has just ratified an international treaty on the international trademark registration which is contained in Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (Madrid Protocol)

  • The international registration of marks known as Madrid system is based on two international treaties which are the Madrid Concerning the International Registration of Marks (Agreement) and the Protocol Relating to Madrid Agreement (Protocol)

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Introduction

The era development, the rapid current of globalization nowadays is inevitable any more to countries in the world. This condition becomes the trigger of an international trade that can improve a country economy through the creativity that is owned by the people, especially those involved in the business. The intellectual property rights are rights over property which is obtained from a human intellectualism It is called human intellectualism because only humans can create things in the field of science and technology. Any work in the field of science and technology created through a human or humans’ mind(s) or inventive ability is basically in the scope of intellectual property rights (IPR)

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