The process of registering a Madrid trademark:
1. Submit an application through the intellectual property office of the country or region where you are located. Before submitting an international application, you must first obtain trademark registration at the domestic intellectual property office. Or submit a registration application. This registration or application is called a basic mark. You can then file an international application through your home IP office, which will certify your application and submit it to the World Intellectual Property Organization.
2. The World Intellectual Property Organization will conduct a formal review. The trademark documents that pass the review will be registered in the International Register and published in the "World Intellectual Property Organization International Trademark Announcement". The World Intellectual Property Organization will send you an international registration certificate and notify all IP offices in the places where you want your mark to be protected. It is important to note that the scope of protection provided by the international registration is still unknown at this stage of the procedure. This can only be determined after a substantive examination and decision by the intellectual property office where you seek protection for your mark.
3. The intellectual property offices of the designated countries or regions will conduct substantive examinations. Each intellectual property office where the trademark is expected to be protected will conduct a substantive examination within 12 or 18 months according to their respective legislation. Make decisions accordingly. WIPO will record the offices' decisions in the International Register and notify trademark applicants. If one IP office refuses to protect (reject) your trademark in whole or in part, this decision does not affect the decisions of other offices. A review of the rejection decision can be submitted directly to the Bureau in accordance with relevant legislation. If an office agrees to protect your trademark, it will issue a statement granting protection.