A Madrid Protocol registration in the United States is two things at once: a US registration with US obligations, and an extension of an international registration with obligations at WIPO. The two run on different anniversaries.
Tracking one and inferring the other is the most common error in Madrid docketing, and it is invisible until a registration lapses.
The US side
A Section 71 affidavit of continued use, due between the fifth and sixth anniversary of the US registration date, then before each ten-year anniversary. Six-month grace period, additional fee.
Not Section 8. The timing matches but the statute does not, and the filing is made under a different provision.
The WIPO side
The international registration itself renews every ten years from the international registration date, through WIPO rather than the USPTO. That renewal covers every designated country at once.
Letting it lapse removes protection everywhere, including the US extension — regardless of whether the Section 71 affidavit was filed perfectly.
Why the dates diverge
The international registration is created first. The US extension of protection is granted after examination here, which takes months and can take years if there is a refusal. By the time the US registration date is set, the international anniversary is already somewhere else in the calendar.
A docket that records a single “renewal date” for a Madrid mark is recording one of two, and has no way to say which.
The dependency period
For the first five years from the international registration date, the international registration depends on the basic application or registration in the home country. If that home mark falls away in those five years, the international registration falls with it — and every designation, including the US.
This is the central attack, and it has nothing to do with anything the US file shows. It is a deadline in the sense that matters: a date after which a risk disappears, worth knowing while it is still live.
Related reading
The filing itself is covered on the Section 71 affidavit page. For how Madrid filings appear in the USPTO database and what to watch for as a US owner, see Madrid Protocol trademark monitoring.
Office actions run longer
Section 66(a) applications kept the six-month response period when most applications moved to three in December 2022 — and no extension request is available. More time, fewer options.