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Countries which have signed the Madrid Protocol

Albania	Hungary	Norway
Antigua and Barbuda	Iceland	Oman
Armenia	Iran (but see note Not US)	Poland
Australia	Ireland	Portugal
Austria	Italy	Romania
Azerbaijan	Japan	Russian Federation
Bahrain	Kenya	San Marino
Belarus	Korea (South)	São Tomé and Principe (as of December 8, 2008)
Belgium (Benelux)	Korea (North)	Serbia
Bhutan	Kyrgyzstan	Sierra Leone
Botswana	Latvia	Singapore
Bulgaria	Lesotho	Slovakia
China	Liechtenstein	Slovenia
Croatia	Lithuania	Spain
Cuba	Luxembourg (Benelux)	Swaziland
Cyprus	The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	Sweden
Czech Republic	Madagascar	Switzerland
Denmark	Moldova	Syria (but see note Not US)
Estonia	Monaco	Turkey
European Community	Mongolia	Turkmenistan
Finland	Montenegro	Ukraine
France	Morocco	United Kingdom
Georgia	Mozambique	United States of America
Germany	Namibia	Uzbekistan
Greece	Netherlands (Benelux)	Viet Nam
	Netherlands Antilles	Zambia

(list as of 10 November 2008)

Notes

Benelux: Belgium , Luxembourg and the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Europe have a unified legislation on trademarks and a common Office for the registration of trademarks under that legislation (Benelux Office). Under the Madrid System, protection shall be requested as if they were one country ( Benelux ). Their designation shall be subject to payment of a single complementary or individual fee.

Not US: some countries may not be elected by US applicants because of trade restrictions under US Law. These countries are flagged with "(but see note)" on the table above

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