Revision of the Industrial Design Law to Eliminate the Appeal Commission

The House of Representatives (“DPR”) plans to abolish the appeal commission mechanism under the proposed amendments to Law No. 31 of 2000 on Industrial Designs (“UU 31/2021”). Mufti Aiman Nurul Anam, a member of the Special Committee (Pansus) for the Industrial Design Draft Bill, stated that disputes arising from industrial design registrations should be resolved through a single forum, namely the commercial court.

The legislator from the Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan (PDI-P) expressed the view that eliminating the appeal commission would help make the resolution of industrial design registration disputes faster and more efficient. “Industrial designs created and submitted by the public should not be hindered by the existence of an appeal commission,” he said on Wednesday (3 June).

Mufti further noted that technological advancements have made the plagiarism of designs increasingly easy and widespread. As a result, he emphasized the importance of ensuring that procedures relating to industrial design registration and the resolution of registration disputes are effectively addressed in the proposed amendments to the law.

“If parties must first go through an appeal process and then proceed to court, the resolution process will take even longer, and by then the design may already be outdated,” said the member of Commission IV of the DPR.