Madrid: a flourishing system?
29-09-2016
Progress on implementing the Madrid System for international trademark registration around the world presents a mixed picture, as Sarah Morgan reports.
The World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Madrid System is certainly thriving:
in 2019, it recorded its 1.5 millionth international trademark registration, in the same year that the United Nations agency celebrated 30 years since the adoption of the Madrid Protocol, the cornerstone of the Madrid System.
While the system has been in existence for more than 125 years, three-quarters of its current members joined it during the past three decades. Membership in the Madrid System quadrupled from just 25 members in 1988, to 107 members now. The protocol, which came into effect in 1996, allows for applicants to apply for or register a mark through an office of origin in their own country or region (if that is a signatory) and then designate international registrations based on tha
Exclusive: INTA CEO on the âhybridâ Houston meeting
08-02-2021
26-05-2016
On Friday, February 5, the International Trademark Association (INTA) announced the details of this year’s annual meeting, one of the biggest dates on the trademark law calendar.
After deferring last year’s planned event in Singapore and instead holding a virtual meeting in November, INTA is planning a return towards normal in Houston later this year.
Speaking exclusively to
WIPR on Friday, INTA CEO Etienne Sanz de Acedo said his reading was that “most INTA members are looking forward to meeting in-person” as soon as possible.
“After a very difficult year, we want to bring some optimism to our members. We think there is a very good chance we will have an in-person meeting,” Sanz de Acedo said.