Directorate General of Intellectual Property
The Directorate General of Intellectual Property (DGIP), the Indonesian government organization that supervises IP rights in the nation, gave its most recent warning on March 23, 2020, with respect to the constraint of physical contact because of the COVID-19 flare-up. During this period, all DGIP officials are telecommuting and getting to the framework remotely. Thusly, the DGIP is shutting their physical counters while improving the online channels for IP matters. These conditions will stay as a result until at any rate April 5, 2020 (Circular Letter No. HKI-OT.020.02-10).
Trademarks
The online trademark stays accessible for:
New trademark registration filings;
Reaction to office activities; and
Resistances and answers.
For every single web based recording, the first cutoff times stay unaltered. Then, the Trademark Appeal Commission has announced that any intrigue cutoff time falling inside the conclusion time frame will be stretched out until the circumstance is ordinary (the conclusion time frame right now runs until April 5, 2020, except if expanded).
Licenses
New applications can be recorded on the web.
Any accommodation (e.g., custom, reaction to office activity, annuity, and so on.) with a cutoff time in March 2020 will be delayed until further notification.
Other
The web based recording of copyrights and modern plans can be led ordinarily during this period.
Courts
The Supreme Court has given Circular Letter No. 1 of 2020 Re: the Guidelines for the Implementation of Duties during the COVID-19 Prevention Period inside the Supreme Court and the Lower Judicial Bodies.
The roundabout urges each judge to enhance their telecommuting framework and the e-court procedures. Preliminary of all cases other than non-extendable lawbreaker, military, or Islamic criminal issues are suspended until the avoidance time frame is finished. Be that as it may, the roundabout letter specifies that judges can decide the direness of suspension at their circumspection. In this manner, the contesting parties in IP cases need to check with the Commercial Court whether the assessment of their cases are suspended or not.
National Agency of Drug and Food Control
Workplaces of the National Agency of Drug and Food Control (NADFC; or in Indonesian, BPOM), stay shut for stroll in documenting and meeting until further notification. The most recent day that their counters were open for administration was March 12, 2020, and they authoritatively shut for on location administrations from March 16, 2020.
During this period, the NADFC authorities stay accessible for request by means of email, informing applications, or call, however hold up times may fluctuate.