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Sunrise Pharma wants to renew its international registration obtained under the Madrid System. For how long is an international registration valid, and how is it kept alive?

An international registration under the Madrid System lasts ten years and can be renewed for successive ten-year periods by paying the prescribed fees to WIPO's International Bureau. The five-year figure relates only to dependence on the basic mark, not to the term.

  1. AFive years, renewable annually
  2. BTen years, renewable for further ten-year periods by paying fees to the International BureauCorrect
  3. CSeven years, renewable once
  4. DTwenty years, not renewable

Explanation

An international registration lasts ten years from its date and is renewable for successive ten-year periods on payment of prescribed fees to WIPO's International Bureau. Five years is the dependency period on the basic mark, not the term of validity, so option one confuses the two.

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