In
Indonesia there were numerous people’s innovative workpieces or creations which
were of high sales value. For that matter the people or whoeover created a
product must have right of creation, and patent right so their workpieces could
not be copied by someone else. Unfortunately people’s awareness and
appreciation for intellectual right and the right to claim intellectual right
in Indonesia was still low.
In Indonesia the rate of violation
of intellectual right (HAKI) was also still high. This was due to low protected
system of HAKI and weak control by Government apparatus on the widespread
occurrence of intellectual right violation. The Government had done their best
to launch illumination campaign for the people about the protection of
intellectual right, process of application, and legal sanction to be put on
violators.
The Director General of IKM of the
Ministry of Industry, Euis Saedah, in Jakarta on Friday (7/9/2012) admitted
that the awareness among small and medium industry circles to register their
creations were still low so very frequently many cases of dispute busted out.
This year the Ministry of Industry set target to register intellectual right of
150 brands and trademarks but only 100 came to apply and only 60 brands passed.
“IKM player are not too enthusiastic about applying for HAKI because the
procedure of application is quite lengthy and there is a synopsis needed for
it” Euis remarked.
And yet according to Euis, the cost
for HAKI application was free. Intellectual rights application consisted of
copyright, patent right, branding, industrial design, and space planning of
integrated circuit. Euis said that she planned to allocate fund of Rp 2 billion
to nature local IKM and apply for HKI in 2013. For the most part the fund would
be spend on publicizing HAKI to IKM and the importance of patenting their
products. Furthermore Euis promised to extend legal assistance for IKM in
intellectual rights desputes.
Euis reminded that it was easy for
anyone to steal IKM brand in Indonesia as they were not patented. According to
Euis copyright was an important matter because someone’s brand could easily be
robbed by someone else who would patent the brand. In this case the owner could
not use his own name and could not sell his product by that brand. Euis said
that the awareness of intellectual right was because IKM never know how to
obtain the right. For that matter the Government planned to lauch an illumination
campaign to protect IKM from having their brand of creation stolen. The
illumination was also meant to motivate IKM small industry to voluntarily
patent their product or brand.
HAKI would give legal protection for
products invented or branded by the people. Moreover to the businessworld,
especially IKM became most important for developing creative economy which was
full of competition. She mentioned two benefits offered by HAKI i.e. firstly to
give added value to products and be beneficial to other people. Secondly, it
would strengthen product competitiveness and at the same time protect every
product being released from any attempt of forgery. Hence she expected it would
have the impact on economic development which would eventually improve people’s
welfare. “I think intensive efforts are necessary to make IKM more concerned
about HAKI” she said.
Business News - September 12, 2012
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