Date: 3 April 2025
Source: Attention International Trademark Registration Holders and Representatives: Your Input Needed

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is conducting a survey to gather insights from holders or representatives of international trade mark registrations. The survey will remain open until 30 April 2025.

WIPO is seeking information on:

• the occurrence of bad faith and the use of central attack in relation to international trade mark registrations; and
• other grounds for requesting cancellation of an international trade mark registration due to the basic mark ceasing to have effect.

The feedback collected will help WIPO better understand the challenges faced by holders and representatives using the Madrid System and support ongoing improvements to its legal framework.

The survey responses will also directly inform discussions at the next session of the Working Group on the Legal Development of the Madrid System, which will take place in September.