Extension of a trademark application abroad: consultation in Milan
At Brevetti Digiovanni Schmiedt in Milan, we offer professional consultation in the field of intellectual property to help you protect your brand internationally. In this case, a trademark application abroad can be extended for individual countries or through a single procedure, as with the international trademark.
International brand
An international trademark is a trademark valid in one or more states adhering to the Madrid Agreement and/or Protocol
and its registration is carried out by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) based in Geneva, Switzerland. Unlike the European Union trademark, the international trademark is not a supranational trademark regulated in the same way in all the countries acceding to the convention, but rather a centralized procedure for filing an application to register a trademark which produces as many independent national trademarks as there are countries designated in the registration application.
Registering a trademark in a single foreign country
If you wish, you can file a trademark application in a single foreign country while maintaining the priority of the filing date of the Italian application, provided that the foreign filing takes place within six months and the priority is claimed expressly. In this case, the duration and judicial protection of the trademark are those provided for by current legislation in the individual foreign country. State-by-state filing is convenient only if the market for the products and services covered by the trademark is well circumscribed within individual countries.
Duration
An international trademark is valid 10 years from the date the application is filed. This duration can be extended indefinitely by renewing the registration at the end of each 10-year period.
