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

# §1141m. Incontestability


The period of continuous use prescribed under [section 1065 of this title](/usc/15/1065.md) for a mark covered by an [extension of protection](/usc/15/1141.md?p=6) issued under this subchapter may begin no earlier than the date on which the Director issues the certificate of the [extension of protection](/usc/15/1141.md?p=6) under [section 1141i of this title](/usc/15/1141i.md), except as provided in [section 1141n of this title](/usc/15/1141n.md).


## Source credit

(July 5, 1946, ch. 540, title XII, § 73, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title III, § 13402, Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1920.)