Madrid Protocol for International Trademark Registration

Introduction

A unified process for trademark registration in several contractual member countries is offered by the Madrid system. Two accords or treaties control the Madrid system:
1. The Madrid Agreement
It relates to the worldwide registration of trademarks and
2. The Madrid Protocol
Concerning the Madrid Agreement (sometimes referred to as the Madrid Protocol for short). adopted it in 1989 Madrid, Spain.
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland looks after the administration of these accords through the International Bureau (IB).

We will be discussing The Madrid Protocol in this blog majorly.Traditionally, the trademarks registered in a particular Nation or granted by a particular Nation served to protect the interest and rights of the proprietor only in that particular nation. Any person interested in protecting his or her trademark internationally was thus required to file for trademark registration in each separate nation where such protection was sought. This caused multiplicity of applications and inconvenience to the applicant and more expenditure for him. This inconvenience of filing trademark in each separate nation was sought to be redressed by the Madrid Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks, 1989 (Madrid Protocol).