---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1141b"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1141b"
heading: "Certification of the international application"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1141b"
units:
  - "Chapter 22 — Trademarks"
  - "Subchapter IV — The Madrid Protocol"
---

# §1141b. Certification of the international application

- (a) **Certification procedure—** Upon the filing of an application for [international registration](/usc/15/1141.md?p=11) and payment of the prescribed fees, the Director shall examine the [international application](/usc/15/1141.md?p=8) for the purpose of certifying that the information contained in the [international application](/usc/15/1141.md?p=8) corresponds to the information contained in the [basic application](/usc/15/1141.md?p=1) or [basic registration](/usc/15/1141.md?p=2) at the time of the certification.
- (b) **Transmittal—** Upon examination and certification of the [international application](/usc/15/1141.md?p=8), the Director shall transmit the [international application](/usc/15/1141.md?p=8) to the [International Bureau](/usc/15/1141.md?p=9).

## Source credit

(July 5, 1946, ch. 540, title XII, § 62, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title III, § 13402, Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1915.)