Treaty of Madrid (1891)
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The Madrid Agreement concerning the International Registration of Marks is, among other things, the first treaty to give France
legal protection of the word champagne.
Agreement concerning the International Registration of Marks (1891) is a special treaty
designed to ease the acquisition of trademark
rights in various countries. After an initial registration in his own country, an applicant for a trademark can make a so-called international registration at the International Bureau (IB) of the WIPO in Geneva
, indicating the member countries in which he would like to have trademark protection. The IB then makes the registration and passes it on to all the designated member countries of the Madrid Agreement. These then have one year in which to refuse the registration in their country.
The registrations that are a result of the international registration can be annulled if the original national registration is refused, annulled or dropped in the first five years after the first registration date. An annulment resulting from a legal action started after the original registration is more than 5 years old cannot affect the international registration.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
legal protection of the word champagne.
The Madrid Agreement
The MadridMadrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
Agreement concerning the International Registration of Marks (1891) is a special treaty
Treaty
A treaty is an express agreement under international law entered into by actors in international law, namely sovereign states and international organizations. A treaty may also be known as an agreement, protocol, covenant, convention or exchange of letters, among other terms...
designed to ease the acquisition of trademark
Trademark
A trademark, trade mark, or trade-mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity to identify that the products or services to consumers with which the trademark appears originate from a unique source, and to distinguish its products or...
rights in various countries. After an initial registration in his own country, an applicant for a trademark can make a so-called international registration at the International Bureau (IB) of the WIPO in Geneva
Geneva
Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...
, indicating the member countries in which he would like to have trademark protection. The IB then makes the registration and passes it on to all the designated member countries of the Madrid Agreement. These then have one year in which to refuse the registration in their country.
The registrations that are a result of the international registration can be annulled if the original national registration is refused, annulled or dropped in the first five years after the first registration date. An annulment resulting from a legal action started after the original registration is more than 5 years old cannot affect the international registration.