Registration of U.S. trademarks may be obtained in any or all of the nations listed below by means of a single application to the Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks under the Madrid Protocol. This application, based on an existing U.S. application or registration, is initiated in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
The nations in bold are currently members of the European Union and are individually contracting parties to the Madrid Protocol. Malta, which is also a member of the E.U., is not an individual contracting party to the Madrid Protocol, but protection in Malta is included when extension of protection is granted by the Union. The African Intellectual Property Union currently includes 17 African nations who are not individual contracting parties, but are included in an international registration (extension of protection) granted by the Union.
Afghanistan African Intellectual Property Union (OAPI) Albania Algeria Antigua and Barbuda Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Belarus Belgium Bhutan Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Cambodia Canada China Colombia Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czechia Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North) Denmark Egypt Estonia European Union Finland France Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Islamic Republic of Iran Israel Italy Japan Kazakhstan Kenya Kyrgyzstan Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos) Latvia Lesotho |
Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Madagascar Malaysia Malta Mexico Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Namibia Netherlands New Zealand Norway Oman Philippines Poland Portugal Republic of Korea (South) Republic of Moldova Romania Russian Federation Rwanda Samoa San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Serbia Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sudan Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syrian Arab Republic Tajikistan Thailand The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Ukraine United Kingdom United States of America Uzbekistan Viet Nam Zambia Zimbabwe |