1. A 1996 international agreement that allows citizens of a Madrid Agreement signatory nation to apply for a single international trademark through the World Intellectual Property Organization instead of registering the trademark in each individual nation. • An applicant must apply for the trademark’s registration in a treaty-member nation before applying for international trademark protection.
2. A 1989 international trademark-registration agreement that supplements the Madrid Agreement on trademark registration, harmonizes the Agreement’s registration system with that of the European Union, and allows citizens of nonmember nations to apply for international trademark registration without first registering the trademark in a member nation. • When referred to along with the Madrid Registration of Marks Treaty, it is sometimes also termed the Madrid System. See MADRID AGREEMENT(1).
