---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1141c"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1141c"
heading: "Restriction, abandonment, cancellation, or expiration of a basic application or basic registration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1141c"
units:
  - "Chapter 22 — Trademarks"
  - "Subchapter IV — The Madrid Protocol"
---

# §1141c. Restriction, abandonment, cancellation, or expiration of a basic application or basic registration


With respect to an [international application](/usc/15/1141.md?p=8) transmitted to the [International Bureau](/usc/15/1141.md?p=9) under [section 1141b of this title](/usc/15/1141b.md), the Director shall notify the [International Bureau](/usc/15/1141.md?p=9) whenever the [basic application](/usc/15/1141.md?p=1) or [basic registration](/usc/15/1141.md?p=2) which is the basis for the [international application](/usc/15/1141.md?p=8) has been restricted, abandoned, or canceled, or has expired, with respect to some or all of the goods and services listed in the [international registration](/usc/15/1141.md?p=11)—

- (1) within 5 years after the [international registration date](/usc/15/1141.md?p=12); or
- (2) more than 5 years after the [international registration date](/usc/15/1141.md?p=12) if the restriction, abandonment, or cancellation of the [basic application](/usc/15/1141.md?p=1) or [basic registration](/usc/15/1141.md?p=2) resulted from an action that began before the end of that 5-year period.

## Source credit

(July 5, 1946, ch. 540, title XII, § 63, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title III, § 13402, Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1915.)