Chile recently agreed to join the Madrid Protocol making International Registrations possible. At the same time, the country passed a law modernizing its Industrial Property Law. In both cases, INTA was there to provide input along the way.
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
Today, the Secretary of State for Justice, Anabela Pedroso, gave the closing address at the High Level Conference on the topic of The Intellectual Property Metamorphosis in the Age of Digital Transition , as part of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Organised by the Ministry of Justice and by the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), over 33 speakers participated in the conference, debating the transformation of intellectual property in the age of globalisation.
Underlining the links between intellectual and industrial property and the fundamental property rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Secretary of State emphasised the role of this intangible asset in the revitalisation of the economy.