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

# §1141l. Assignment of an extension of protection


An [extension of protection](/usc/15/1141.md?p=6) may be assigned, together with the goodwill associated with the mark, only to a [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) who is a national of, is domiciled in, or has a bona fide and effective industrial or commercial establishment either in a country that is a [Contracting Party](/usc/15/1141.md?p=3) or in a country that is a member of an intergovernmental organization that is a [Contracting Party](/usc/15/1141.md?p=3).


## Source credit

(July 5, 1946, ch. 540, title XII, § 72, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title III, § 13402, Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1920.)