Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sudan, Switzerland, Tajikistan, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, Yugoslavia. The Agreement, concluded in 1891, was revised at Brussels in 1900, at Washington in 1911, at The Hague in 1925, at London in 1934, at Nice in 1957, and at Stockholm in 1967, and was amended in 1979. The Agreement is open to States party to the Paris Convention. To be able to enjoy the advantages of the Agreement, the applicant must be a national of one of the contracting States or must be domiciled or have a real and effective industrial or commercial establishment in one of the contracting States.
International registration has several advantages for the owner of the mark.
For example, they do not need to publish the marks. Part of the fees collected by the International Bureau is transferred to the contracting States in which protection is sought. Furthermore, if the International Registration Service closes its biennial accounts with a profit, the proceeds are divided among the contracting States. In respect of the year 1995, more than 23.9 million Swiss francs were credited to the member States in respect of the said fees, and about 2.1 million Swiss francs were credited to the member States in respect of the Madrid Union surplus for the 1994-95 biennium. The number of international registrations and renewals effected under the Madrid Agreement and the Madrid Protocol was 22,995 in 1996.