The Madrid System offers numerous benefits to trademark owners:
Instead of filing separate national applications in different languages and paying several different (and often higher) fees in each country or region concerned, obtaining an international registration requires filing a single application with the International Bureau (through your own Office) in a single language (English or French) and paying a single set of fees. Similar benefits apply to maintaining and renewing registrations. Similarly, transfers of international registrations to third parties, or other changes such as changes of name and/or address, can be recorded in a single procedural step with effect for all designated Contracting Parties.
To facilitate the work of users of the Madrid System, the International Bureau has published the Guide to the International Registration of Marks under the Madrid Agreement and the Madrid Protocol. The Madrid Agreement and the Madrid Protocol are open to States that are party to the Paris Convention. The two treaties are parallel and independent, and States may accede to either or both of them. In addition, intergovernmental organizations with trademark registries may become members of the Madrid Protocol. The instrument of ratification or accession must be deposited with the Director-General of the World Intellectual Property Organization.
my country joined the Agreement on July 4, 1989, and the Agreement entered into force for my country on October 4, 1989.