Grenada Accession to Madrid Protocol for International Trademark Registration
Summary
WIPO notified that Grenada deposited its instrument of accession to the Madrid Protocol on December 15, 2025. The Protocol enters into force for Grenada on March 15, 2026, allowing trademark owners to extend protection to Grenada through international registration. Grenada declared an 18-month refusal notification period and will receive individual fees instead of supplementary/complementary fees.
What changed
Grenada has acceded to the Madrid Protocol, the international treaty governing the international registration of marks. The deposit was made on December 15, 2025, with entry into force scheduled for March 15, 2026. Grenada made two declarations under Articles 5(2)(b) and 8(7)(a): adopting an 18-month time limit for refusal notifications and electing to receive individual fees rather than a share of supplementary and complementary fees.
Trademark owners seeking to protect their marks in Grenada may now use the Madrid System's international registration pathway. Businesses with existing international registrations should consider designating Grenada. No immediate compliance action is required, but IP practitioners should update their territorial coverage analyses and client portfolios to account for this new Madrid member.
What to do next
- Identify whether existing international trademark registrations should include Grenada designation
- Update territorial expansion strategies for brand protection
- Notify international IP counsel of Grenada's Madrid Protocol membership effective March 15, 2026
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Madrid (Marks) Notification No. 241
Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks
Accession by Grenada
The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments and has the honor to notify the deposit by the Government of Grenada, on December 15, 2025, of its instrument of accession to the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks, adopted at Madrid on June 27, 1989 ("Madrid Protocol (1989)"), as amended on October 3, 2006, and on November 12, 2007. The said instrument contained the following declarations:
in accordance with Article 5(2)(b) of the Madrid Protocol (1989), the time limit for a notification of refusal in respect of international registrations made under the Madrid Protocol will be 18 months and, under Article 5(2)(c) of the said Protocol, where a refusal of protection results from an opposition to the granting of protection, such refusal may be notified by the Government of Grenada to the International Bureau after the expiry of the 18-month time limit; and
in accordance with Article 8(7)(a) of the Madrid Protocol (1989), the Government of Grenada, in connection with each international registration in which it is mentioned under Article 3 ter of the said Protocol, and in connection with the renewal of any such international registration, wants to receive, instead of a share in the revenue produced by the supplementary and complementary fees, an individual fee.
The Madrid Protocol (1989) will enter into force, with respect to Grenada, on March 15, 2026.
December 15, 2025
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