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Indonesia is still behind in competition with its neighboring countries for the number of registered patents. This was confirmed by Insan Budi Maulana, an intellectual property practitioner, who notes that Indonesian patents are currently lagging behind other nations in South East Asia.
Insan reports that Indonesia is currently third behind Singapore and Malaysia in this regard. Based on 2011 data, the number of patent applications in Indonesia was 5,348, Singapore in first place had 9,794 patents, and Malaysia a distant second had 6,452 patents.
“We have more than Thailand, and also more than Vietnam, but don’t forget that Indonesia’s population is 240 million people, roughly 60 percent of ASEAN’s population,” was the reality portrayed by Insan during a seminar titled “Legal Protection for Patent Rights in Indonesia” in Semarang last Saturday.
Insan, who currently holds a position as a professor of business law, further explained that Singapore is the most advanced nation in the region when it comes to patents because the Singaporean government implements policies to support competitive technology.
“Competitive means that in that country technological competition is fierce,” he stated.
At the same event, Budi Santoso, an intellectual property professor at Diponegoro University, expressed his concern about the depressing low number of Indonesian patents. Ironically, continued Budi, most of the registered patents in Indonesia are coming from foreigners.
“Patents derived from purely domestic sources in 2011 were a mere 200 but foreign patent entering Indonesia numbering 2197. In other words, we are only 8.34 percent, whereas foreign patents that entered Indonesia account for 91.66 percent,” he stated.
Budi also expressed his view that these circumstances are caused by overly complex registration procedures requiring more time than what is prescribed in prevailing laws and regulations.
Responding to the problem on patent registration, Meilia Witri Budi Utami, a representative from the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, admitted that in practice patent registration processes exceed the period prescribed in the applicable laws and regulations.
“Indeed there are still obstacles, and sometimes patents are granted after more than 36 months,” she stated.
Meilia described a number of contributing factors such as the hesitation of patent examiners to decide whether or not to grant a patent application. Another factor is the postponement of the substantive examination for patent applications by the Directorate General of Intellectual Property, commonly referred to as backlogging. Backlogging is generally caused by the shortage of competent human resources at the Directorate General of Intellectual Property.
“This indeed shouldn’t happen. We hope that in the future there will be no more delayed examinations,” she asserted.
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Andin Aditya Rahman
Indonesia is still behind in competition with its neighboring countries for the number of registered patents. This was confirmed by Insan Budi Maulana, an intellectual property practitioner, who notes that Indonesian patents are currently lagging behind other nations in South East Asia.
Insan reports that Indonesia is currently third behind Singapore and Malaysia in this regard. Based on 2011 data, the number of patent applications in Indonesia was 5,348, Singapore in first place had 9,794 patents, and Malaysia a distant second had 6,452 patents.
“We have more than Thailand, and also more than Vietnam, but don’t forget that Indonesia’s population is 240 million people, roughly 60 percent of ASEAN’s population,” was the reality portrayed by Insan during a seminar titled “Legal Protection for Patent Rights in Indonesia” in Semarang last Saturday.
Insan, who currently holds a position as a professor of business law, further explained that Singapore is the most advanced nation in the region when it comes to patents because the Singaporean government implements policies to support competitive technology.
“Competitive means that in that country technological competition is fierce,” he stated.
At the same event, Budi Santoso, an intellectual property professor at Diponegoro University, expressed his concern about the depressing low number of Indonesian patents. Ironically, continued Budi, most of the registered patents in Indonesia are coming from foreigners.
“Patents derived from purely domestic sources in 2011 were a mere 200 but foreign patent entering Indonesia numbering 2197. In other words, we are only 8.34 percent, whereas foreign patents that entered Indonesia account for 91.66 percent,” he stated.
Budi also expressed his view that these circumstances are caused by overly complex registration procedures requiring more time than what is prescribed in prevailing laws and regulations.
Responding to the problem on patent registration, Meilia Witri Budi Utami, a representative from the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, admitted that in practice patent registration processes exceed the period prescribed in the applicable laws and regulations.
“Indeed there are still obstacles, and sometimes patents are granted after more than 36 months,” she stated.
Meilia described a number of contributing factors such as the hesitation of patent examiners to decide whether or not to grant a patent application. Another factor is the postponement of the substantive examination for patent applications by the Directorate General of Intellectual Property, commonly referred to as backlogging. Backlogging is generally caused by the shortage of competent human resources at the Directorate General of Intellectual Property.
“This indeed shouldn’t happen. We hope that in the future there will be no more delayed examinations,” she asserted.
(hot/kc)