Subsequent Designation

36. The effects of an international registration can be extended to a Contracting Party not covered by the international application by filing a subsequent designation. Thus the holder of an international registration can expand the geographical scope of the protection of his mark in line with his business needs. Moreover a subsequent designation may be made in order to extend the protection of the mark to a Contracting Party which was not a party to the Agreement or Protocol at the time of the international application. The principles that determine whether such a designation can be made, and whether it is governed by the Agreement or by the Protocol, are as described in paragraphs 14 and 15, above.