Countries which can be designated in an International Trade Mark Application.
| State/IGO | Date on which State/IGO became party to the Madrid Protocol (1989) |
Albania ............................................................................... July 30, 2003
Antigua and Barbuda ......................................................... March 17, 2000
Armenia ................................................................ October 19, 2000 6,10
Australia ....................................................................... July 11, 2001 5,6
Austria .............................................................................. April 13, 1999
Bahrain ..................................................................... December 15, 2005
Belarus .................................................................. January 18, 2002 6,10
Belgium ......................................................................... April 1, 1998 3,6
Bhutan ............................................................................. August 4, 2000
Bulgaria .................................................................. October 2, 2001 6,10
China ................................................................. December 1, 1995 4,5,6
Croatia .......................................................................... January 23, 2004
Cuba .......................................................................... December 26, 1995
Cyprus ....................................................................... November 4, 2003 5
Czech Republic ........................................................... September 25, 1996
Democratic People's Republic of Korea ................................ October 3, 1996
Denmark ............................................................... February 13, 1996 5,6,7
Estonia ................................................................ November 18, 1998 5,6,8
European Community .................................................. October 1, 2004 6,10
Finland ............................................................................. April 1, 1996 5,6
France ......................................................................... November 7, 1997 9
Georgia ........................................................................August 20, 1998 6,10
Germany ..............................................................................March 20, 1996
Greece ..........................................................................August 10, 2000 5,6
Hungary ..............................................................................October 3, 1997
Iceland .............................................................................April 15, 1997 6,10
Iran (Islamic Republic of)...................................................December 25, 2003 5
Ireland ..........................................................................October 19, 2001 5,6
Italy ...................................................................................April 17, 2000 5,6
Japan .............................................................................March 14, 2000 6,10
Kenya ....................................................................................June 26, 1998 5
Kyrgyzstan ..............................................................................June 17, 2004 6
Latvia ......................................................................................January 5, 2000
Lesotho ................................................................................February 12, 1999
Liechtenstein ...........................................................................March 17, 1998
Lithuania ..........................................................................November 15, 1997 5
Luxembourg .............................................................................April 1, 1998 3,6
Monaco ..............................................................................September 27, 1996
Mongolia .....................................................................................June 16, 2001
Morocco .................................................................................October 8, 1999
Mozambique .............................................................................October 7, 1998
Namibia .....................................................................................June 30, 2004 8
Netherlands ..........................................................................April 1, 1998 3,6,11
Norway .................................................................................March 29, 1996 5,6
Poland ......................................................................................March 4, 1997 10
Portugal ......................................................................................March 20, 1997
Republic of Korea ......................................................................April 10, 2003 5,6
Republic of Moldova ................................................................December 1, 1997 6
Romania ..........................................................................................July 28, 1998
Russian Federation ..........................................................................June 10, 1997
Serbia and Montenegro...............................................................February 17, 1998
Sierra Leone ...........................................................................December 28, 1999
Singapore ...........................................................................October 31, 2000 5, 6
Slovakia .............................................................................September 13, 1997 10
Slovenia .......................................................................................March 12, 1998
Spain .......................................................................................December 1, 1995
Swaziland ................................................................................December 14, 1998
Sweden ..............................................................................December 1, 1995 5,6
Switzerland ................................................................................May 1, 1997 6,10
Syrian Arab Republic .......................................................................August 5, 2004
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia ......................................August 30, 2002
Turkey ............................................................................... January 1, 1999 6,8,10
Turkmenistan ....................................................................September 28, 1999 6,10
Ukraine ...............................................................................December 29, 2000 5,6
United Kingdom..................................................................December 1, 1995 5,6,13
United States of America ....................................................... November 2, 2003 5,6
Zambia ......................................................................................November 15, 2001
1 The Madrid Union is composed of the States party to the Madrid Agreement and the Contracting Parties to the
Madrid Protocol.
2 All the States party to the Madrid Agreement have declared, under Article 3bis of the Nice or Stockholm Act, that the protection arising from international registration shall not extend to them unless the proprietor of the mark so requests.
3 The territories of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Europe are to be deemed a single country, for the application of the Madrid Agreement as from January 1, 1971, and for the application of the Protocol as from April 1, 1998.
4 Not applicable to either the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region or the Macau Special Administrative Region.
5 In accordance with Article 5(2)(b) and (c) of the Protocol, this Contracting Party has declared that the time limit to notify a refusal of protection shall be 18 months and that, where a refusal of protection results from an opposition to the granting of protection, such refusal may be notified after the expiry of the 18–month time limit.
6 In accordance with Article 8(7)(a) of the Protocol, this Contracting Party has declared that, in connection with each request for territorial extension to it of the protection of an international registration and the renewal of any such international registration, it wants to receive, instead of a share in the revenue produced by the supplementary and complementary fee, an individual fee.
7 Not applicable to the Faroe Islands and to Greenland.
8 In accordance with Article 14(5) of the Protocol, this Contracting Party has declared that the protection resulting from any international registration effected under this Protocol before the date of entry into force of this Protocol with respect to it cannot be extended to it.
9 Including all Overseas Departments and Territories.
10 In accordance with Article 5(2)(b) of the Protocol, this Contracting Party has declared that the time limit to notify a refusal of protection shall be 18 months.
11 The instrument of ratification of the Stockholm Act and the instrument of acceptance of the Protocol were deposited for the Kingdom in Europe. The Netherlands extended the application of the Madrid Protocol to the Netherlands Antilles with effect from April 28, 2003.
12 Date of accession by the Soviet Union, continued by the Russian Federation as from December 25, 1991.
13 Ratification in respect of the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man.