Madrid Protocol And Hague System Effective In Mauritius On May 6, 2023

Starting May 6, 2023, businesses, and individuals in Mauritius, by means of the Madrid System, will be able to apply for protection of their trademarks internationally by submitting one single application. This will protect the trademark's rightsholders in 129 jurisdictions across the globe. In addition, Mauritius will access The Hague Agreement, allowing Mauritian businesses and individuals to register their industrial designs in 96 jurisdictions through one single application. These landmark achievements were long awaited and are expected to major drivers in R&D and the protection of intellectual rights, and industrial designs for Mauritian businesses.

On February 6, 2023, the Government of Mauritius deposited its instruments of accession to the Madrid Protocol and the 1999 Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). Both the Madrid Protocol and the 1999 Act will enter into force in Mauritius on May 6, 2023.