Resources for Intellectual Property Offices of Madrid System Members

The intellectual property (IP) Offices of all our Madrid System Members have duties as “Offices of Origin" – the Office through which an international trademark application is filed – and as “Offices of a designated Member” – countries or regions where holders seek cross-border protection of their marks through WIPO's Madrid System!
We support IP Offices to process and manage international trademark applications and registrations, providing tools, resources, training and more.
Are you an IP Office thinking of joining the Madrid System? Find out all about the preparatory work required and access tools developed specifically to help you through the accession process.

Madrid System Legal Forum

Help us to shape the future of the Madrid System. Join the conversation in our Legal Forum. Access is restricted.

Tools for IP Offices

Madrid Office Portal

Use the Madrid Office Portal to view and manage international trademark applications and registrations for which your Office is either the “Office of Origin” or the Office of a designated Madrid System Member. You can securely exchange all documents and notifications directly with us.
  • Quick start guide [PDF]
  • Introducing the Madrid Office Portal  [Video]

Model forms

Use our model forms to notify us (WIPO) – and international trademark registration holders or their representatives – of your (IP Office) decisions regarding:
  • statements of grant of protection;
  • provisional refusals;
  • ceasing of effect of a basic mark;
  • and much more.

Member Profiles

Our Member Profiles available under eMadrid provide customers with full details of the local laws and procedures of all Madrid System Members. We strongly encourage you to keep this information up-to-date!

Real time statistics

Use our Madrid System statistics to create reports, monitor the status and volume of pending applications and subsequent designations currently being processed by WIPO, and more.

Classification of goods and services

With new and recently developed goods and services – as well as new technologies – emerging all the time, classification is not always straightforward. If you need guidance on complex classification issues, or have questions about innovative products or services, we can help you.

Madrid e-Filing

Madrid e-Filing is a WIPO-powered, free-of-charge digital environment through which trademark holders can file – and we (WIPO and all participating IP Offices) can process – applications for international trademark registrations. 

More and more Madrid System Members are integrating Madrid e-Filing to streamline and speed-up the application process at both the back and the front-end. Don’t miss out!

We will...
  • Help you integrate Madrid e-Filing into your IT environment and provide technical support.
  • Set up a test instance for you to assess Madrid e-Filing. Tip! If your Office contributes to our Global Brand Database (or TMview) then your national trademark data is available for import into Madrid e-Filing.
  • Translate the Madrid e-Filing interface into your Office's working language free-of-charge.
Madrid e-Filing Guide for Offices [PDF]

Online training for IP Offices

From September 10 to November 12, 2024, we are hosting a series of online training sessions designed to keep IP Office staff up-to-date with Madrid System practices and procedures, rules and regulations, tools and more.

We will offer each English language training session twice on the same day – with French subtitles in the morning; with Spanish subtitles in the afternoon – to ensure that wherever you are in the world, you can join us. Be sure to ask all your questions at the end of the presentation during the live Q&A session. We look forward to seeing you online!
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Historical archives

  • Questions and answers on examination/refusal procedure (January 2010) [DOC]
  • Information kit relating to modified or new Rules as in force from September 1, 2009 [PDF]
  • Repeal of the Safeguard Clause – Information Kit [PDF]
  • Office practices on replacement (2007)