applications were registered with a total of 16,339
designs. Germany is the country with the most active
members using the Hague system. Seen in 2019,
Germany took first place with a total of 772
applications consisting of 4,487 designs, followed by
South Korea with 2,736 designs, Switzerland (2,178),
Italy (1994) and the Netherlands with 1,376 designs.
Like Indonesia, China is in the stage of ratifying the
1999 Geneva Agreement and considering that China
is one of the countries with many products resulting
from industrial designs. To increase global market
penetration, in 2020, China plans to ratify the Hague
Agreement. For three years in a row, products from
"Samsung", an electronics company from South
Korea, ranked first on the list of significant applicants.
Samsung has 929 designs listed in the published
registration. Second place is the Netherlands' Fonkel
Furnituremarketing (859 designs), LG (598),
Volkswagen AG from Germany (536) and Procter &
Gamble from the United States (410). If you look at
the data on Industrial Design Applications from other
countries to Indonesia, it can be seen that there are
only around 2,670 applications. However, 1,784 came
from Indonesia itself. That means only about 886
pieces came from overseas applications (Ditjen KI,
2020).
The Hague Treaty is appropriate when applied
within the European Union. This is because the
European Union was the first to develop legal
unification in intellectual property rights among
European countries. The UK is a member of the
European Union, which has just ratified the Hague
Agreement in 2015. The UK is aware that although
the EU is an intergovernmental organization that is a
member of the Hague System, individually, the UK is
not a member state. Companies wishing to use the
Hague system to obtain the protection of their
industrial designs in the UK must register it with all
member states of the European Union (Intellectual
Property Rights Office of UK, 2020).
In contrast to the implementation of the Hague
System in America. The United States ratified the
Hague Agreement in 2013. The US Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) classifies patients into
two, namely, based on function and design. The first
type is to protect the way innovation is used and how
it works. Meanwhile, the second type covers the shape
and appearance of a product. So it can be said that
America classifies designs as another category
protected through the Patent Act. America
experienced a surge in acceptance of industrial design
registrations in its country. America received product
registrations from other countries in 2009 before
becoming a member of the Hague System as many as
156.321 products, and in 2018, it became 368,172
products. This can happen because, for example, a
designer applying to the European Union can also add
a small fee to register it with the United States. The
reason is that the American market is a potential
destination in marketing a product.
The Hague system only regulates the registration
procedure to be more effective and unified without
changing the legal substance in each country,
evidenced by the difference in terms applied in
America and the European Union. In America,
because it is tied to patent protection, the requirement
for a patent design to be accepted is that it must be
"new, not primary, original and only in the form of
ornaments" (Monseau, 2012). So, it can be seen that
the required conditions seem very complicated. While
the European Union allows a more comprehensive
design in the form, product packaging and emblem.
The European Union looks more severe in modifying
the Copyright approach in the protection of Industrial
Designs.
Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the
database and network owned by DJKI as the
administrative manager of industrial design
registration. The implication of this online and
electronic registration for the community is that it
makes it easier for people from various parts of the
country who want to obtain industrial design
protection for their work without the need for
additional fees to come to Jakarta or the Regional
Office of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights of
the Republic of Indonesia, this system is also
considered a user friendly because there is no need for
face-to-face contact between the applicant and DJKI
employees, which can minimize the practice of
extortion that is often complained of by the
community using IPR services. So in this Hague
system, one application replaces a series of
applications that should be submitted separately to
each country or regional office for which the
industrial design registration application is intended.
This facility is an essential element in international
commercial cooperation and can assist in increasing
trade.
3 CONCLUSIONS
Indonesia needs to immediately ratify the contents of
the Hague Agreement in the Geneva Act 1999. The
same applies to trademarks that the Madrid Protocol
and copyrights have protected that the Bern
Convention protects. Indonesia's participation as a
member country can be a vital sign to the international