Indonesian Trademark Law No. 15 Year 2001
Procedure of Trademark Application
Documents Required for Filling Trademark Application:
1) Executed Power of Attorney (simply signed, no legalization or notarization is required)
2) Executed Declaration (simply signed, no legalization or notarization is required)
3) 30 specimens of Mark, with size 2x2 cm (min), 9x9 cm (max)
4) Certified copy of Priority Document (if priority is claimed)
Marks That Can be Registered and That are Rejected:
A Mark shall not be registered if it contains one of the following elements:
» Contradicting with the prevailing rules and regulation, morality of religion or public order;
» Having no distingushing features;
» Having become public property; or
» Constituting information or related to the goods or services for which registration is requested.
An Application for registration of a Mark shall be refused by the Directorate General if the relevant Mark:
» has a similarity in its essential parts or in its entirety with a Mark owned by another party which has previously been registered for the same kind of goods and/or services.
» has a similarity in its essential part or in its entirety with a well-known Mark owned by another party for the same kind of goods and/or services
» has a similarity ini its essential part or in its entirety with a known geographical indication.
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