Madrid International Registration
The international application for trademark must use the official working languages of the Madrid system, with the official application form to the applicant of the original bureau.
1, the local registration
To carry out the international registration of trademarks by Madrid trademark, the applicant must have been in the country of origin (i.e. their) get registered trademarks or trademarks has received notification of acceptance.
2, submit the application
The international registration of marks the date of application, the Trademark Office receives the application shall be the date on which the. Application procedures are complete and application completed in accordance with regulations, scheduled for the application for Trademark Bureau, the book in thirty days (English or French) by the international bureau;
3, the International Bureau for examination
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) International Bureau receives the application for international registration, that complete formalities, goods and services category and name right, which is to be registered; that the procedures are not complete, will suspend the registration, and notify the trademark bureau.
The Trademark Office received the International Bureau notice from the date of notification to the applicant or the agent complete formalities within 15 days; after reviewing the International Bureau requirements, and already or soon after the application submitted to the designated country review will be awarded international trademark registration certificate, time is generally 6 months or so.
The international trademark registration certificate, not the trademark has been approved and registered by the proof; its significance lies in, the international registration number and international registration is subsequently applicants trademark later-stage designation, change, transfer, renewal and other series of activities based.
4, specify the country review
The trademark can be registered in the designated country, to the designated country review shall prevail.
5, agreements and protocols of review
The protection of the state designated international trademark registration application, according to their respective national laws to decide whether to be protected, and the need to declare the International Bureau of the rejected.
Agreement, statement rejected time up to one year, that is to say, if the specified protection application was rejected in a year is not within the time limit, the application of automatic protection (according to the provisions of the protocol, members may according to need, will have the right to reject the time extended to 18 months).
Registration date from international agreements or, if you have not received within 18 months did not receive refused trademark notice of rejection to the protocol within 12 months, i.e. the trademark has been in the agreement or agreed the country automatically protected.
By virtue of its procedural mechanism, the Madrid system can make the trademark rights directly submit an application for international registration book to its national or regional trademark office will make its mark is protected in Madrid union countries. The international trademark registration is equivalent to the applicant in each country or organization specify directly the applications for trademark registration or registration
6, the Madrid trademark registration information
(1), when the notice of acceptance or registration certificate copy;
(2), the trademark design;
(3), trademark proxy;
(4), application for international registration.