Awareness seminar on ‘Accession to Madrid Protocol’ for industry and corporate members

Sri Lanka is expected to obtain Madrid Protocol accession – the international trademark application filing system – by end of this year, which will allow the country’s brands to register their trademarks in a single filing, getting activated across many countries at the same time, affording trade mark protection for Sri Lankan brands at a global level.

The National Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with the National Intellectual Property Office of Sri Lanka is organising an awareness seminar on Thursday 26 July from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Chamber Auditorium 450 DR Wijewardene Mw, Colombo 10. 

The key speaker a legal consultant retained by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Jatin Trivedi , Attorney and Advocate from India will be in Sri Lanka to provide assistance to the Government in the process of accession to Madrid Protocol. Trivedi will explain in detail at this seminar, with regard to filing trade mark applications through the Madrid system, advantages and other aspects involved. He will be accompanied by Piyush Khatri of Rajasthan Bar Council a legal practitioner for 14 years in IPR and Tax Laws, in India; and Geethanjali R. Ranawaka, Director General NIPO will attend.

The Madrid Protocol system provides for the international registration of trade marks by way of one application that can cover more than one country. The opportunity of having a single registration to cover a wide range of countries gives advantages, both in terms of portfolio management and cost savings, as opposed to a portfolio of independent national registrations. Madrid provides a mechanism for obtaining trademark protection in many countries around the world.

The Madrid system is administered by the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland. There are 101 countries as contracting parties of the Madrid System.

This awareness seminar will be free of charge to Industry and Corporate members. For reservation of seat, please contact Chamber, Nirmani TP 011 4741788 [email protected]; [email protected].