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

# §1141j. Dependence of extension of protection to the United States on the underlying international registration

- (a) **Effect of cancellation of international registration—** If the [International Bureau](/usc/15/1141.md?p=9) notifies the United States Patent and Trademark Office of the cancellation of an [international registration](/usc/15/1141.md?p=11) with respect to some or all of the goods and services listed in the [international registration](/usc/15/1141.md?p=11), the Director shall cancel any [extension of protection](/usc/15/1141.md?p=6) to the United States with respect to such goods and services as of the date on which the [international registration](/usc/15/1141.md?p=11) was canceled.
- (b) **Effect of failure to renew international registration—** If the [International Bureau](/usc/15/1141.md?p=9) does not renew an [international registration](/usc/15/1141.md?p=11), the corresponding [extension of protection](/usc/15/1141.md?p=6) to the United States shall cease to be valid as of the date of the expiration of the [international registration](/usc/15/1141.md?p=11).
- (c) **Transformation of an extension of protection into a United States application—** The holder of an [international registration](/usc/15/1141.md?p=11) canceled in whole or in part by the [International Bureau](/usc/15/1141.md?p=9) at the request of the [office of origin](/usc/15/1141.md?p=16), under article 6(4) of the [Madrid Protocol](/usc/15/1141.md?p=13), may file an application, under section [1051](/usc/15/1051.md) or [1126](/usc/15/1126.md) of this title, for the registration of the same mark for any of the goods and services to which the cancellation applies that were covered by an [extension of protection](/usc/15/1141.md?p=6) to the United States based on that [international registration](/usc/15/1141.md?p=11). Such an application shall be treated as if it had been filed on the [international registration date](/usc/15/1141.md?p=12) or the [date of recordal](/usc/15/1141.md?p=4) of the request for [extension of protection](/usc/15/1141.md?p=6) with the [International Bureau](/usc/15/1141.md?p=9), whichever date applies, and, if the [extension of protection](/usc/15/1141.md?p=6) enjoyed priority under [section 1141g of this title](/usc/15/1141g.md), shall enjoy the same priority. Such an application shall be entitled to the benefits conferred by this subsection only if the application is filed not later than 3 months after the date on which the [international registration](/usc/15/1141.md?p=11) was canceled, in whole or in part, and only if the application complies with all the requirements of this chapter which apply to any application filed pursuant to section [1051](/usc/15/1051.md) or [1126](/usc/15/1126.md) of this title.

## Source credit

(July 5, 1946, ch. 540, title XII, § 70, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title III, § 13402, Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1918.)