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Gunawan Suryomurcito

Consultant

Jakarta

+62 21 769 7333

Biography

Gunawan established local law firm, Suryomurcito and Co. - our associate firm in Indonesia - in 1997. He has extensive practical experience of IP protection and enforcement in Indonesia.

Gunawan joined Rouse in 1997 from Indopatent, the law firm and patent and trade mark agency of which he was a founding partner. Prior to that he worked in the office of Oei Tat Hway Patents & Trade Marks for nine years, ultimately taking charge of the firm's trade mark anti-counterfeiting division. He established Suryomurcito & Co in March 1997. He has undertaken various advanced intellectual property and management courses in Indonesia, Europe and Japan. 

He has extensive practical experience of IP protection and enforcement in Indonesia, having handled a large caseload of both contentious and non-contentious trade mark and patent work throughout his career. Gunawan is a registered patent attorney and in 1998, when the draft patent law was tabled at the Parliament, he was invited to attend the public Parliamentary hearing as an expert. One of his suggestions was incorporated into the Patent Law of 1989. He is currently President of the Indonesian Intellectual Property Society.

Qualifications

  • Sarjana Hukum (equivalent to LLB), University of Indonesia

Awards

  • WTR Global Leaders, 2020: Listed among "Global Leaders" in Private Practice in Indonesia
  • Chambers & Partners, 2018 - 2020: Listed as a 'Notable practitioner'
  • WTR 1000, 2020: Recognized as a 'Luminary'
  • Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2020,2019,2018 & 2015: Listed as a 'Leading Individual'
  • WIPR - IP Leaders, 2019: Recognized for Trade Marks and Patents in Indonesia 
  • Managing Intellectual Property, 2016 - 2019: Listed among "trade mark stars"
  • IAM Patent, 2016 - 2019: Listed as a 'Recommended Individual'
  • WTR 1000, 2019,2018,2016, 2015 & 2014: Listed as a 'Recommended Individual'
  • WIPR - IP Leader, 2017 & 2016: Recognized for Trade Marks in Indonesia
  • Chambers Asia Pacific, 2017,2016 & 2014: Listed as a 'Notable practitioner'
  • Asia IP Expert, 2016 - Recommended for Enforcement and Patents
  • Managing Intellectual Property, 2014 & 2015: Listed as 'IP star'

Personal Interest Title

  • Gardening, photography, philosophy, and spiritual discussions (Christianity, Buddhism and others)

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