Letter of Consent



So you received a report that the trademark office will reject your trademark application. It said that the mark is similar to a prior registration or pending application. You have the opportunity to respond the provisional rejection. As the proprietor of the mark(s) is related to the client, you would think that a letter of consent will solve the matter. But, really?  

In practice a letter of consent will not improve the chances in overcoming a provisional rejection. The Indonesian trademark office is strict in their view that even related companies, e.g. in the same group, cannot give consent to another related company to overcome a citation.
So is obtaining a letter of consent is a bad idea at all?
Not really. Letter of consent is useful to eliminate infringement risk in respect of the cited mark(s).


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