Madagascar is a member of the Paris Convention, the PCT and the WTO/TRIPS.

Patent protection is available via a national filing. Patent protection may also be obtained by way of a national phase application based on an international application under the PCT designating Madagascar.

Madagascar is a member of the Paris Convention and the WTO/TRIPS. Design protection is available by way of a national filing.

Madagascar is a member of the Berne Convention and the WTO/TRIPS.

The law provides for copyright in respect of all intellectual works, whatever their genre, form of expression or merit, including:

• books, brochures and other literary, artistic and scientific writings
• lectures, speeches, addresses, sermons
• dramatic and dramatico-musical works
• choreographic works, pantomimes
• musical works
• cinematographic and audiovisual works
• works of art, architecture, painting, drawing, sculpture, etc
• graphic and typographic works
• photographic works
• works of applied art or craft
• illustrations and geographical maps
• plans, sketches and plastic works relating to geography, topography, architecture
• software programs
• works of folklore
• translations, adaptations, arrangements of works
• databases or compilations of data.

Currently, no legislative provision for plant breeders’ rights or other sui generis protection for plants is available in Madagascar.