Understanding Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are assets obtained from human thought. IPR has moral and economic characteristics, so it can be legally protected both nationally and internationally to avoid cheating by other parties, such as plagiarism and theft of ideas from products/processes/services by producing/applying them on a mass scale. In Indonesia, IPR is divided into nine (9) types from the official website https://dgip.go.id/, namely:

1. Trademark
2. Patents
3. Industrial Design
4. Copyright
5. Geographical Indications
6. Integrated Circuit Layout Design (ICLD)
7. Trade Secrets
8. Communal Intellectual Property / C.I. Communal
9. Investigation & Dispute Resolution

Benefits of Intellectual Property Rights

1. Providing legal certainty for rights holders in conducting and developing businesses
2. Providing legal protection for rights holders against misuse or violation of IP (counterfeiting or other fraudulent acts) to maintain product quality and positive image of the inventor/institution/company
3. Rights holders can grant permission or licenses to other parties

Legal Basis of Intellectual Property Rights

The legislation that forms the legal basis for IPR is as follows:

1. Law No. 13 of 2016 concerning Patents
2. Law No. 28 of 2014 concerning Copyright