Why Filing First is Not Enough — The Rise of Bad Faith Trademark Applications in Indonesia

Indonesia’s Trademark landscape has become increasingly challenging for legitimate brand owners in recent years. Filing your Trademark first is no longer a guaranteed safeguard against opportunists. A concerning trend has emerged: the surge of bad faith Trademark applications, commonly called Trademark squatting.   At AFFA Intellectual Property Rights, we have witnessed — and successfully countered…

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See you at the upcoming INTA 2023 Annual Meeting in Singapore, May 16-20 | 2023

AFFA Intellectual Property Rights – Indonesia & Timor Leste are delighted to announce that our team members, Emirsyah Dinar (Managing Partner), Fariz Syah Alam (Partner – Trademark), and Amelia Zafin (Associate – Trademark), will be attending the highly anticipated International Trademark Association (INTA)’s 145th Annual Meeting in Singapore this May.  As a leading global association…