✍🏻 As a baseline, we advise clients to go for the Madrid Filing System only when they are certain about the strength of their trademark, and at least 3 countries and 3 classes are intended. The main reasons are as follows:
1️⃣ A significant high entrance fee is required to commence the system<br
🗂️ How does a Madrid trademark filing system work? First of all, only a resident of or entity having a domicile address within the member country is entitled to use the Madrid filing system. It is a convenient filing system which allows applicant to designate multiple member jurisdictions as
👂 Most people have had heard of ‘international trademark’, but not many have fully comprehended the meaning behind this word. As mentioned and advised to many of our clients, the term ‘international trademark’ does not equals to a worldwide protection of a single trademark or brand, as
📋 Whilst MyIPO and other IP offices around the world regulates for IP registrations, but these offices do not enforce the IP rights for you. It is entirely left to you as registrant and rights holder to enforce these rights granted by the offices to maintain what is rightfully belonging to you
✒️ Once you’ve registered your trademark, it won’t expire, although you will have to pay renewal fees. Some brands that are so familiar in modern culture have been around for eons. Consider the following iconic trademarks:
🗂️ Coca-Cola was registered as a “nutrient or tonic beverage”
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