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90多年来,在若干国家之间存在着一个以最简便的书面手续办理申请商标注册的国际机构:见1891年有关国际商标注册的马德里协议(马德里协议)。时至今日,已有27个国家加入马德里协议,包括欧洲经济共同体的8个成员国和经互会的六个成员国。全部成员国都在欧洲大陆、北非或者是以前的欧洲大国殖民地:尽管多次试图劝说普通法国家加入,但是它们仍然没有加入。然而,近年来在联合王国内部,就加入一个国际协议以便利商标申请的需要,在意见方面,已经有了改变:以前完全反对;现在,在有关的工业用户中涌起一股支持的浪潮(还没有在政府集团里引起反映)。
For more than 90 years there has been an international body that applies the simplest formalities for the registration of trade marks between several countries: see the 1891 Madrid Agreement Concerning the Registration of International Trademarks (Madrid Agreement). To date, 27 countries have acceded to the Madrid agreement, including the eight member states of the European Economic Community and the six member countries of the Economic and Trade Commission. All of the member states are colonies of European continent, North Africa or former European powers: they have not joined despite repeated attempts to persuade common law countries to join. However, in the United Kingdom in recent years there has been a change in opinion regarding the need to join an international agreement to facilitate the filing of trademark applications: Complete objection in the past; now there is a wave of support among the industrial users involved Not yet reflected in the government group).