Brown & Michaels

Countries which have signed the Madrid Protocol

Albania	Hungary	Norway
Antigua and Barbuda	Iceland	Oman
Armenia	Iran (but see note Not US)	Poland
Australia	Ireland	Portugal
Austria	Italy	Romania
Azerbaijan	Japan	Russian Federation
Bahrain	Kenya	San Marino
Belarus	Korea (South)	Serbia
Belgium (Benelux)	Korea (North)	Sierra Leone
Bhutan	Kyrgyzstan	Singapore
Botswana	Latvia	Slovakia
Bulgaria	Lesotho	Slovenia
China	Liechtenstein	Spain
Croatia	Lithuania	Swaziland
Cuba	Luxembourg (Benelux)	Sweden
Cyprus	The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	Switzerland
Czech Republic	Madagascar (eff 28 Apr 08)	Syria (but see note Not US)
Denmark	Moldova	Turkey
Estonia	Monaco	Turkmenistan
European Community	Mongolia	Ukraine
Finland	Montenegro	United Kingdom
France	Morocco	United States of America
Georgia	Mozambique	Uzbekistan
Germany	Namibia	Viet Nam
Greece	Netherlands (Benelux)	Zambia
	Netherlands Antilles

(list as of 3 March 2008)

Notes

Benelux: Belgium , Luxembourg and the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Europe have a unified legislation on trademarks and a common Office for the registration of trademarks under that legislation (Benelux Office). Under the Madrid System, protection shall be requested as if they were one country ( Benelux ). Their designation shall be subject to payment of a single complementary or individual fee.

Not US: some countries may not be elected by US applicants because of trade restrictions under US Law. These countries are flagged with "(but see note)" on the table above

Back to the Madrid Protocol page - Back to the Trademarks page

Home || Intellectual Property || Patents || Trademarks || Copyrights

Brown & Michaels, PC

e-mail: bpm@bpmlegal.com

400 M & T Bank Building
118 North Tioga Street - The Commons
Ithaca, NY 14850
Phone: (607) 256-2000 - Fax: (607) 256-3628