Rules of Practice for Trademark-Related Filings Under the Madrid Protocol Implementation Act
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is adding new regulations to implement the Madrid Protocol Implementation Act of 2002 (MPIA), and is amending existing regulation both to implement the MPIA and to otherwise clarify and improve the procedures for processing trademark applications and conducting proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. The MPIA provides that: The owner of a U.S. application or registration may seek protection of its mark in any of the other 58 countries party to the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (Madrid Protocol) by submitting a single international application through the Office to the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (IB); and the owner of an application or registration in a country party to the Madrid Protocol may obtain an international registration from the IB and request an extension of protection of its mark to the United States.
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- Read the news
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- www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/09/26/03-23562/rules-of-practice-for-trademark-related-filings-under-the-madrid-protocol-implementation-act (permanent link in the Federal Register, verified 2026-09-30)
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- Published
- 2003-09-26
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- Rule
- Source
- USPTO documents published in the Federal Register (Federal Register API)(retrieved 2026-10-06)
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Related entry points
- Rules of Practice for Trademark-Related Filings Under the Madrid Protocol Implementation Act
- New Mailing Addresses for Paper Submissions of Trademark-Related Correspondence and Madrid Protocol Rules Change
- Electronic Filing Systems for Filings Pursuant to the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks
- Temporary Postponement of Electronic Filing and Payment Rules for Certain Madrid Protocol-Related Rules
- Miscellaneous Changes to Trademark Rules of Practice and the Rules of Practice in Filings Pursuant to the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks
- Miscellaneous Changes to Trademark Rules of Practice and the Rules of Practice in Filings Pursuant to the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks
- Changes to the Trademark Rules of Practice To Mandate Electronic Filing
- Changes to the Trademark Rules of Practice To Mandate Electronic Filing
- Trademark Technical and Conforming Amendments
- Rules to Implement Optional Inter Partes Reexamination Proceedings
- Modification to Temporary Postponement of Electronic Filing and Payment Rules for Certain Madrid Protocol-Related Rules
- Trademark Technical and Conforming Amendments
- Modification to Temporary Postponement of Electronic Filing and Payment Rules for Certain Madrid Protocol-related Rules
- Changes To Implement the Hague Agreement Concerning International Registration of Industrial Designs
- Partial Replacement of an Earlier National Registration or Registrations by an International Registration
- References to Electronic Filing Systems in Rules of Practice in Filings Pursuant to the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks