{"id":58179,"date":"2021-02-25T11:26:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T08:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspendospatent.com\/?p=58179"},"modified":"2021-02-25T11:26:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T08:26:55","slug":"the-islamic-republic-of-pakistan-joins-the-madrid-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspendospatent.com\/en\/2021\/02\/25\/the-islamic-republic-of-pakistan-joins-the-madrid-system\/","title":{"rendered":"The Islamic Republic of Pakistan Joins the Madrid System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 24, 2021, the Government of the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Islamic Republic of Pakistan<\/span> deposited its instrument of accession to the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Madrid Protocol<\/span>\u00a0with\u00a0WIPO\u2019s Director General, making it the 108th\u00a0member of the Madrid System, which now covers 124 countries. The Protocol will enter into force for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on May 24, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Starting May 24, 2021<\/span>, local brand owners in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan can begin using the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Madrid System<\/span>\u00a0to protect their trademarks in the 123 territories of the System\u2019s other <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">107 members<\/span> by\u00a0filing a single international application\u00a0and paying a\u00a0single set of fees.<\/p>\n<p>With its straightforward designation process, foreign companies and trademark owners can, from <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">May 24, 2021<\/span>, seek trademark protection through the Madrid System when selling their products and services in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wipo.int\/madrid\/en\/news\/2021\/news_0005.html\">https:\/\/www.wipo.int\/madrid\/en\/news\/2021\/news_0005.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 24, 2021, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan deposited its instrument of accession to the\u00a0Madrid Protocol\u00a0with\u00a0WIPO\u2019s Director General, making it the 108th\u00a0member of the Madrid System, which now covers 124 countries. The Protocol will enter into force for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on May 24, 2021. Starting May 24, 2021,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[331,328,330,327,329],"tags":[338,335,336,334,337,260,309],"class_list":["post-58179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-108th-member-of-the-madrid-system","category-madrid-protocol","category-member","category-trademark-2","category-wipo-2","tag-108th-memberofthemadridsystem","tag-madridprotocol","tag-madridsystem","tag-member","tag-pakistan","tag-trademark","tag-wipo","category-331","category-328","category-330","category-327","category-329","description-off"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspendospatent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspendospatent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspendospatent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspendospatent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspendospatent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspendospatent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58182,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspendospatent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58179\/revisions\/58182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspendospatent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspendospatent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspendospatent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspendospatent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}