---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1141g"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1141g"
heading: "Right of priority for request for extension of protection to the United States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1141g"
units:
  - "Chapter 22 — Trademarks"
  - "Subchapter IV — The Madrid Protocol"
---

# §1141g. Right of priority for request for extension of protection to the United States


The holder of an [international registration](/usc/15/1141.md?p=11) with a request for an [extension of protection](/usc/15/1141.md?p=6) to the United States shall be entitled to claim a date of priority based on a right of priority within the meaning of Article 4 of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property if—

- (1) the request for [extension of protection](/usc/15/1141.md?p=6) contains a claim of priority; and
- (2) the date of [international registration](/usc/15/1141.md?p=11) or the date of the recordal of the request for [extension of protection](/usc/15/1141.md?p=6) to the United States is not later than 6 months after the date of the first regular national filing (within the meaning of Article 4(A)(3) of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property) or a subsequent application (within the meaning of Article 4(C)(4) of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property).

## Source credit

(July 5, 1946, ch. 540, title XII, § 67, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title III, § 13402, Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1917.)