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title: What Happens to My Singapore Trade Mark Designation If My Basic Mark Is Cancelled Within 5 Years?
description: If your basic mark is cancelled within five years, your Singapore trade mark designation is cancelled through a Madrid Protocol central attack — but transformation can save it. If the basic mark on which your international registration is based is…
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updated: "2026-07-07"
category: International Registration (Madrid)
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# What Happens to My Singapore Trade Mark Designation If My Basic Mark Is Cancelled Within 5 Years?

If your basic mark is cancelled within five years, your Singapore trade mark designation is cancelled through a Madrid Protocol central attack — but transformation can save it.

If the basic mark on which your international registration is based is cancelled (or otherwise ceases to have effect) **within the five-year dependency period**, the International Bureau (WIPO) will **cancel the international registration — including your Singapore designation — to the same extent** that the basic mark was cancelled or restricted.

In practice, this means:

- If the basic mark is cancelled **in whole**, your Singapore designation is cancelled in whole.
- If the basic mark is **restricted** to fewer goods/services, your Singapore designation is restricted to match.

WIPO notifies the holder and the designated Contracting Parties (including IPOS). Once cancelled, the international registration no longer gives you protection in Singapore *through the Madrid route* — but you may be able to salvage it by **transformation** into a Singapore national application (see the related FAQ on transformation).

The dependency clock runs from the **date of the international registration**, not from any later subsequent designation. A Singapore designation added after the original filing is still exposed to the same five-year window.

*Source: Madrid Protocol Article 6(4); IPOS Work Manual (International Applications where Singapore is the Office of Origin), para 11.*

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