Amount Indonesian comics who are members of the Indonesian Stand Up Association came to the Central Jakarta Commercial Court to sue for the cancellation of the Open Mic trademark.
“Today I came to the Central Jakarta Commercial Court with my friends from the stand-up association, my comic friends to register a lawsuit for the cancellation of the Open Mic brand,” said Panji Prasetyo as attorney at the Central Jakarta Commercial Court, Thursday (25/8/2022). ).
It is known that the trademark registration has been carried out since 2013. This is considered detrimental to a number of comedians.
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“This registration has clearly disturbed and disturbed comic book friends because the party who registered this lawsuit sent summons everywhere asking for payment for each event entitled Open Mic,” said Panji Prasetyo.
“This is clearly very unreasonable and the patience of my comic friends has run out, they contacted us and today came the point that one filed a trademark cancellation lawsuit and asked the court to restore the Open Mic brand to become public property,” he added.
Previously, Pandji Pragiwaksono also had time to mediate with parties who registered Open Mic.
Behind his intention of not wanting the brand to be misused, this actually harms the comic itself.
“I had a real chat with him, then he said so that people outside the arts don’t take advantage of it,” explained Pandji Pragiwaksono.
“But in practice, the comics that we admire, we love, get hit, my friend also gets Rp 1 billion,” he continued.
Mosidik is one of those affected by this. He had received a subpoena worth Rp 1 billion in 2019.
“So we want to be safe, the Rp 1 billion subpoena was frankly two, three weeks I mightn’t sleep. Boro-boro wanted to make a joke. If I got hit in 2019,” said Mosidik.
Therefore, Pandji Prasetyo as his attorney asked the Directorate General of Intellectual Property Kemenkumham requesting the cancellation of the mark so that it is not monopolized by only one party.
“Besides brands, we also ask the Director General of Intellectual Property Rights to cancel. We want, because we love, the government to be careful not to let so many public goods, public terms, public pleasures be monopolized and hijacked by only one party,” hoped Panji Prasetyo.
(ahs/pus)
