With Indonesia’s Ministerial Regulation No. 6 of 2026 now fully in force, DJKI has used its online filing system this week to issue a practical warning: any excess claims fees for new patent applications must be paid in full at the time of filing. The message is procedural, but its effect is immediate. Claim counting, specification drafting and payment checks now need to be handled as one filing task, not as separate follow-up items.For applicants, the main risk is not simply a higher official fee. It is the loss of room to correct a fee gap after the application has entered the system....
Indonesia’s latest IP overhaul is no longer just a matter of digitising old procedures. As Ministry of Law Regulation No. 6 of 2026 on patent applications and Regulation No. 5 of 2026 on trademark registration move deeper into day-to-day practice, patents, trademarks, and online enforcement are starting to shift at the same time: patentable subject matter is broader, trademark filing is fully electronic, and online infringement is being pushed into a more operational blocking and access-restriction framework.The real story is not that one rule became stricter than another. It is that filing...
By 24 June 2026, practitioner commentary around Indonesia’s latest DGIP reforms had largely converged on three points. On the patent side, Regulation No. 6 of 2026 finally carries the amended Patent Law into day-to-day filing practice by expressly extending protectable subject matter to systems, methods, and uses. On the trade mark side, Regulation No. 5 of 2026 is widely being read as a serious speed reform, with key official outputs compressed to extremely short timelines and renewal handling now measured in working days rather than months.The bigger story is that these changes do not...
Indonesia’s Ministry of Law and Directorate General of Intellectual Property (DGIP) deposited the country’s instrument of accession to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement with WIPO on 14 July 2026. Subject to the usual entry-into-force timetable, applicants are expected to be able to designate Indonesia through the Hague System from the fourth quarter of this year, replacing much of the separate national filing work that has traditionally involved local formalities, document legalization and Indonesian-language preparation.The move materially broadens the practical value of the Hague...
As of 3 July 2026, the real story in Indonesia is no longer simply that Regulation 5/2026 exists. The market can now see which provisions are likely to bite first in day-to-day filing practice. DGIP is moving toward a much tighter trademark timetable, while applicants are being pushed to prepare more carefully at the front end. Functional shapes now sit squarely in the absolute refusal analysis, sound marks require a recording plus notation or a sonogram, and foreign corporate papers are being pulled into a stricter Indonesian-language documentation track.
That combination changes filing...
