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Countries which have signed the Madrid Protocol

Albania	Greece	Norway
Antigua and Barbuda	Hungary	Oman
Armenia	Iceland	Poland
Australia	Iran (but see note Not US)	Portugal
Austria	Ireland	Romania
Azerbaijan	Italy	Russian Federation
Bahrain	Japan	San Marino
Belarus	Kenya	São Tomé and Principe
Belgium (Benelux)	Korea (South)	Serbia
Bhutan	Korea (North)	Sierra Leone
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Kyrgyzstan	Singapore
Botswana	Latvia	Slovakia
Bulgaria	Lesotho	Slovenia
China	Liberia (as of 11 Dec 09)	Spain
Croatia	Liechtenstein	Swaziland
Cuba	Lithuania	Sweden
Cyprus	Luxembourg (Benelux)	Switzerland
Czech Republic	The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	Syria (but see note Not US)
Denmark	Madagascar	Turkey
Egypt	Moldova	Turkmenistan
Estonia	Monaco	Ukraine
European Community (EM)	Mongolia	United Kingdom
Finland	Montenegro	United States of America
France	Morocco	Uzbekistan
Georgia	Mozambique	Viet Nam
Germany	Namibia	Zambia
Ghana	Netherlands (Benelux) incl. Netherlands Antilles
	Netherlands (Benelux) incl. Netherlands Antilles

(list as of 29 October 2009)

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

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