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EU trademark systems create new quandaries; WIPO's Madrid Protocol amd Community Trade Marks Office offer competing filing regimes

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Trademark rights are one of the areas of European Union law in the most flux and 1996 saw the start of the Madrid Protocol and the European Union Community Trade Marks Office, two related trademark registration procedures. The Protocol answered many of the objections to the earlier Madrid Agreement, providing a mechanism for protecting marks in many countries with an application to a central filing office. The Protocol seems to be the multinational filing system so badly needed in a global economy.

Standards, World Intellectual Property Organization, international, European Union

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U.S. signs on to Madrid Protocol; treaty allows for single application for member nations

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The US protecting their trade marks internationally by signing on to the Madrid Protocol, or Protocol Relating to the International Protection of Marks, is discussed. This provides a way to simultaneously apply for trademark protection in many countries. Potential drawbacks are also discussed.

Regulation, Licensing, and Inspection of Miscellaneous Commercial Sectors, Trademark Programs, Protection and preservation

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United States may join ranks of Madrid Protocol; multiple trademark filings for international protection may soon be a thing of the past

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Possible US ratification of the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks is discussed. The Protocol provides an international system of simultaneous application for trademark protection in many countries.

United States, International

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