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

# §1141i. Effect of extension of protection

- (a) **Issuance of extension of protection—** Unless a request for [extension of protection](/usc/15/1141.md?p=6) is refused under [section 1141h of this title](/usc/15/1141h.md), the Director shall issue a certificate of [extension of protection](/usc/15/1141.md?p=6) pursuant to the request and shall cause notice of such certificate of [extension of protection](/usc/15/1141.md?p=6) to be published in the Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
- (b) **Effect of extension of protection—** From the date on which a certificate of [extension of protection](/usc/15/1141.md?p=6) is issued under [subsection (a)](#a)—
  - (1) such [extension of protection](/usc/15/1141.md?p=6) shall have the same effect and validity as a registration on the Principal Register; and
  - (2) the holder of the [international registration](/usc/15/1141.md?p=11) shall have the same rights and remedies as the owner of a registration on the Principal Register.

## Source credit

(July 5, 1946, ch. 540, title XII, § 69, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title III, § 13402, Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1918.)