France is a member of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, as well as the Madrid Agreement on the International Registration of Marks, the Madrid Protocol on the International Registration of Marks and the Nice Agreement on the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purpose of Registration of Marks. member states and members of the World Intellectual Property Organization. The department responsible for trademark registration in France is the National Institute of Industrial Property. In addition to its headquarters in Paris, the Bureau also has seven branches in large and medium-sized cities such as Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nancy, Nice, Rennes, and Strasbourg.