INTERNATIONAL TRADEMARK REGISTRATION THROUGH MADRID PROTOCOL AS A SOLUTION FOR TRADEMARK PROTECTION FROM INDONESIA
Gede Aditya Pratama, Elfirda Ade Putri, Aimee Malca Luwinanda

Universitas Bhayangkara Jakarta Raya

Abstract

Nowadays, globalisation has resulted in goods, services, labour, and capital flowing freely between countries in the world. Indonesia itself is not an exception for this global phenomenon. The free flow of trade from and out of Indonesia makes products from Indonesia are vulnerable to being imitated if they are not protected, especially protection for their trademarks. Not only trademarks from Indonesia have to be protected within the country, but it also need to get protection abroad. Efforts to protect trademarks from Indonesia can be carried out through a registration mechanism per country or internationally. This article attempts to explain that international registration can be effectively carried out through Madrid Protocol, which provides a centralized trademark registration in World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), instead of registering the trademark in the respective countries where the goods or services is intended to be traded. International trademark registration through Madrid Protocol facilitates trademark owners to obtain protection for their trademarks in all the countries who is a participant of the Madrid Protocol, through single registration which can be done from the country of origin.

Keywords: Trademark, Madrid Protocol, international registration

Topic: Law on Bussiness Competition, and Prohibition of Monopoly