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

# §1141n. Rights of extension of protection


When a United States registration and a subsequently issued certificate of [extension of protection](/usc/15/1141.md?p=6) to the United States are owned by the same [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6), identify the same mark, and list the same goods or services, the [extension of protection](/usc/15/1141.md?p=6) shall have the same rights that accrued to the registration prior to issuance of the certificate of [extension of protection](/usc/15/1141.md?p=6).


## Source credit

(July 5, 1946, ch. 540, title XII, § 74, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title III, § 13402, Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1920.)