Priority on IP by Minister Patrialis Akbar

Minister of Law and Human Rights, Mr Patrialis Akbar, included intellectual property as one of his priorities in his first 100 day program. The program on IP focused on the completion of backlogs of applications. He targeted that during the 100 day period:

• 1500 applications in the field of copyright will be granted a final decision whether an application for recordal of a work can be appoved or refused;
• 1000 applications in the field of industrial design will be granted a final decision whether an application for registration of an industrial design can be approved or refused;
• 1250 applications in the field of patents will be granted a final decision whether an application of patent can be granted or refused; and
• 15000 applications for registration or trademark will be granted a final decision whether a registration for registration of trademark can be approved or refused.

From the evaluation of the program, after only three weeks the DGIPR has completed about 35% of the target.