The trademark ensures a protection for an organisation to make it different from among it’s kinds. The owner of the trademark has to register of his/her brand. This legal protection is valid in only the country where the registration is made. There is another right which is ensured in industrial property. A technological invention can have “patent” as long as being new and practicable in industrial area. The owner of the invention would be able to protect his/her invention from illegal production, selling, using with patent right for a limited time.
These two legal protection are regional. That’s why their validity is only in the country where the registration is made. However, today’s world cannot let this. The entrepreneurs need international protection for their organizations. This would be realised by international protocols and the organization like as WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization).
The person who wants to benefit these protections should apply every country which he/she want to registered trademark/patent or fallow the WIPO’s Madrid System. The only one application would be enough to have these protections according to Madrid Protocol. There would be a time limit:
– 20 years for Patent Registry
– 10 years for Trademark Registry
To sum up, international protection would be possible for an entrepreneur if his/her state is a state party of the Madrid Protocol. The intellectual and industrial property rights’ registries will be valid in a large area.
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