1. An 1890 treaty establishing a system for the international registration of trademarks. • The agreement’s official name is the Madrid Arrangement Concerning the International Registration of Marks. A product of the Madrid Revision Conference of the Paris Convention in 1890, it was last revised in 1967. Under this treaty’s registration system, called the Madrid Union, a mark registered in a treaty nation that is also registered (in French) with the World Intellectual Property Organization receives equal protection in all signatory nations. The United States ratified the treaty in 2002. — Also termed Madrid Arrangement; Madrid Registration of Marks Treaty; Madrid Union.
2. An 1890 treaty designed to discourage false indications of geographic source by permitting member nations to seize falsely marked imported goods. • Also a product of the Madrid Revision Conference of the Paris Convention in 1890, the treaty’s official name is the Madrid Arrangement Concerning the Prevention of False or Deceptive Indications of Source. It applies to manufactured and handmade goods, and agricultural products. — Also termed (in sense 2) Madrid Agreement for the Repression of False or Deceptive Indications of Source of Goods.
