India expected to join Madrid this year
12 August 2010
James Nurton, London and Peter Ollier, Hong Kong
The upper house of India’s parliament has passed a bill paving the way for the country to join the Madrid Protocol
The Rajya Sabha passed the Trade Marks (Amendment) Bill 2009 on Tuesday this week.
This means the parliamentary procedure regarding the Protocol is complete and the government can finalise the implementing rules.
Pravin Anand, of Anand & Anand in Delhi, told Managing IP this could be done reasonably quickly, and a membership date should be announced in the country's Gazette soon.
"The office just needs time to complete the rules and machinery, and designate the officers. I expect they will be ready about three months from now," he said.
India's government said it intended to join the...
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