Domain Name Recovery
Sennheiser Reclaiming Its Domain Name For over 80 years, Sennheiser has been synonymous with precision audio engineering. From microphones to headphones, audio professionals and consumers worldwide recognise the SENNHEISER name. Yet for more than a decade, the Indonesian country-code domain sennheiser.co.id sat in someone else’s hands. An unaffiliated third party registered the domain in 2011 […]
Faster Trademark Protection in Indonesia
A Closer Look at Trademark Regulation 5/2026 Indonesia’s Trademark Office has been processing trademark registrations at a faster pace in recent years. SKC Law has observed that applications are now registered roughly six months from filing, compared to the previous average of up to twelve months. Until recently, no formal regulation or guidance had been […]
Patents: New Regulation 6/2026
Indonesia Broadens Patent Protection and Introduces Early Substantive Examinations On 23 February 2026, the Minister of Law enacted Regulation No. 6 of 2026 on Patent Applications (“Regulation 6/2026”), replacing the previous framework under Regulation No. 38 of 2018 as amended (“Regulation 38/2018”). The new regulation expands the categories of inventions eligible for patent protection, revises […]
SKC Law in the WTR 1000
Recognised as Gold for Prosecution & Strategy and Enforcement & Litigation SKC Law has been recognised in the 2026 edition of WTR 1000: The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals, the definitive global guide to outstanding trademark practices and practitioners. The firm received Gold-tier rankings for the 12th consecutive year in both Prosecution & Strategy and Enforcement […]
SKC Law at the 2026 INTA Annual Meeting
Highlights of the 2026 INTA Annual Meeting SKC Law attended the 2026 Annual Meeting of the International Trademark Association (INTA) in London from 2 to 6 May 2026. The firm was represented by Co-Founders Purnomo Suryomurcito and Andrew Conduit. The event took place at ExCeL London and brought together nearly 10,000 IP professionals, brand owners, […]
Major Counterfeit Seizure
Destruction of Over 34,000 Counterfeit Bearings in Jakarta On 5 February 2026, SKF Group Brand Protection and SKF Indonesia, in coordination with Indonesian police authorities, attended the destruction of more than 34,000 counterfeit SKF bearings in Jakarta. The seized goods, weighing 13.3 metric tons and valued at approximately IDR 9.5 billion, were confiscated during a […]
Protecting Fair Play in Online Gaming
Dismantling of Mod Network in Indonesia Reports from the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) player community alerted MOONTON Games to suspicious cheating activity affecting game play. What followed was a coordinated effort between the Central Java Regional Police, MOONTON Games and SKC Law that resulted in the successful resolution of a significant cheat software case. […]
IP Applications Grew 4.5× in a Decade
A Decade of Accelerated IP Growth Indonesia recorded 339,304 intellectual property applications in 2024, compared with 74,893 in 2015, a 4.5 times increase over ten years. The data, drawn from the 2025 DGIP IP Outlook Report published by Indonesia’s Directorate General of Intellectual Property (“DGIP”), points to changes in how both domestic and international businesses approach […]
Insights for The Trademark Law
New Insights on Trademark Law 48 Issues, Seven Reform Pillars, and What Businesses Need to Know Indoensia’s current Trademark Law (Law No. 20 of 2016) was enacted nearly a decade ago, before the explosion of e-commerce, the rise of social commerce, and the emergence of AI-generated branding. Domestically, practitioners, rights holders, and the Directorate General of […]
