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Is it possible to register trademarks globally through the Madrid System?

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The Madrid System does not create a global trademark. What it does is allow a single international application to designate protection in multiple member countries simultaneously, with one set of centralized WIPO fees and a single renewal process.

Each designated country retains the right to examine the application under its own national rules and to refuse it on local grounds. The end result, if the application succeeds in all designated countries, is a bundle of national registrations managed through WIPO rather than a single international right.

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