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Trademarks play an important role in the current international trade and market-oriented economies. Current trade and market
system allows manufacturers to offer consumers a wide range of goods in the same category. For this reasons, the competing goods
must be labeled with a trademark. Trademark counterfeiting has become a global phenomena, including in Indonesia. Towards this
end, Indonesia is taking many strategic and practical steps to eradicate trademark counterfeiting including enacting Law No. 15 of
2001 on Marks. This paper examines the development of law concerning mark in Indonesia, including procedure of trademark
registration and scope of trademark legal protection under current legislation adopted. The results would provide more
understnading pertaining to trademark protection and the development of law concerning marks in Indonesia.