USPTO Receives First International Trademark Application
Under Madrid Protocol
The first international trademark application to be filed under the Madrid
Protocol was received by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on
Monday, November 3. The application was for the mark SNAP!VIDEO and was filed
on behalf of Foveon, Inc. by Thelen Reid & Priest LLP. The application,
which covered various digital cameras, software and related goods in International
Class 9, has been certified and sent to Switzerland.
Under the Madrid Protocol, a trademark owner who is a U.S. citizen, or has
a domicile or commercial establishment in the United States, and who has a
registration or a pending application at the USPTO, may file an international
application at the USPTO using the pending application or registration as
the basis. The USPTO certifies that the international application accurately
reflects the data in the U.S. application or registration, and then forwards
the international application to the International Bureau (IB) of the World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Also, as a member of the Protocol, the Trademark Operation will receive applications
from trademark owners from other Madrid member countries who want to obtain
registration in the United States. These "requests for extension of protection"
will be examined like regularly filed U.S. trademark applications. The IB
has already received some of these requests for extension of protection designating
the US and they will be forwarded to the US for processing later this week.
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