Invention is inventor’s idea embodied into a specific problem solving activities in technology, can be in the form of product or process, or refining and development of a product or process.

Every invention in the form of a product or device that is new and has practical utility value due to its shape, configuration, construction or components can obtain legal protection in the form of a simple patent.

1. Patents are granted for inventions that are new, involve an inventive step, and can be applied in industry. While simple patents are granted for every new invention, development of an existing product or process, and can be applied in industry. Simple patents are granted for inventions in the form of products which not only differ in technical characteristics, but must have a more practical function/use than previous inventions due to their shape, configuration, construction or components which include tools, goods, machines, compositions, formulas, compounds. , or system. Simple patents are also granted for inventions that are new processes or methods;
2. Simple patent claims are limited to one independent claim, while patents have no limit on the number of claims;
3. Technological progress in simple patents is simpler than technological progress in patents.

1. New. If at the time of filing the Patent application the invention is not the same as the previously disclosed technology;
2. Contains an inventive step. If the invention is something that could not have been foreseen for someone who has certain expertise in the technical field;
3. Can be applied in industry. If the invention can be produced or can be used in various types of industry.

Patent is granted for a period of 20 (twenty) years as of the filing date and non-renewable (according to the provision under Article 8 section 1 of the Law number 14 of 2001).