The Paris Convention, a descendent of the earlier Madrid Protocol, aims to help reduce the burden of multinational companies that desire multinational protection of their trademarks by providing a uniform, single-source process
The Paris convention for the protection of industrial property took place in 1883, while the Madrid convention for the international registration of marks originally took place in 1891 (8 years later) and was finally over by 1989. A lot of things happened in between. The Madrid Protocol was finally put in operation in 1996, and it is the primary international system for registering trademarks.
