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Current members of the EU

To obtain trade mark protection in all of the EU via one application, please see our section on Community Trade Marks. There are currently 28 members, but a Community Trade Mark encompasses new members as they join. 

Please see links to other websites for details of current members of the Madrid Protocol (International Register).

To obtain trade mark protection in all of the EU via one application, please see our section on Community Trade Marks. There are currently 27 members, but a Community Trade Mark encompasses new members as they join.

Croatia is to join as from 1 July 2013, but there are transitional provisions which apply from 1 January 2013 regarding prior rights in Croatia.

CURRENT MEMBERS OF THE MADRID ARRANGEMENT AND MADRID PROTOCOL – THE INTERNATIONAL REGISTER

This list is continually growing, albeit slowly. Please click on the link below to see the current list of territories which are members of either the Madrid Arrangement or the Madrid Protocol, or both.

Membership of each part has different rules; a territory which is member of the Madrid Protocol can be designated as part of an international registration by a UK applicant, who would have to base their international registration on a “home” UK or CTM application or registration.

Please contact us for more details of this scheme, which can have great cost and time benefits when compared with filing individual national applications for a basketful of countries.

 Link to WIPO – members of Madrid Arrangement and Madrid Protocol

http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/treaties/en/documents/pdf/madrid_marks.pdf