Prevent Plagiarism, 623 Thousand SMEs In Riau Asked To Register Patents

Illustration of MSMEs in Bandung (ANTARA)

The Regional Office of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Kemenkumham) Riau encouraged 623 thousand MSME business actors to register Intellectual Property Rights (Jaki) for their business production results.

"Registration of KI is important so that the results of their business production are legally protected by the state through the issuance of the Haki/KI certificate," said Head of the Riau Ministry of Law and Human Rights Regional Office Mhd. Jahari Sitepu at another promotion and dissemination of Intellectual Property, quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday 8 March

He said Haki had benefits for MSMEs, and Haki ownership for MSMEs in order to legally protect the products of MSME business actors, increase access to marketing and increase the added value of products.

In addition, said Jahari, Haki can be used as an asset by MSMEs. Regarding as many as 623 thousand MSMEs spread across districts and cities in Riau, the socialization of Haki's importance is gradual.

The Head of Intellectual Property Service Subsidy, Riau Ministry of Law and Human Rights Mirzasahwal said, the interest of MSMEs to register their business production of HAKI is quite large, therefore collaboration with the Perindag Service, Cooperatives and MSMEs and Balitbang, each district government and city government.

There are quite a number of obstacles apart from participants, MSMEs are spread across districts and cities that are constrained by distance, time and cost.

The solution in the future is to announce the establishment of KI centers in each district and city in Riau which will be managed by four relevant agencies, namely the Industry Service, Cooperatives and SMEs, Balitbang and the Ministry of Law and Human Rights.

"The Ministry of Law and Human Rights needs to encourage economic growth through business actors in the regions, both IKM and MSMEs to advance to class, so the economy will also increase," he said.

Meanwhile, KI is divided into two, namely personal intellectual property and the second is communal intellectual property. Personal intellectual property is intellectual property that is fully owned by individual or individual groups with or without submitting a request to the state to obtain monopoly rights for economic exploitation.

Personal intellectual property rights consist of copyright and industrial property rights in the form of patents, brands, industrial designs, geographical indications, circuit layout designs, trade secrets and plant varieties protection.

Meanwhile, communal intellectual property is an intellectual property whose ownership is a group and is a traditional cultural heritage that needs to be preserved. This is considering that this culture is the identity of a group or society.