A collective trademark refers to a mark registered in the name of a group, association or other organization and exclusively used by members of the organization in commercial activities to indicate the user's membership in the organization. In some countries, it may also be registered by a federation of enterprises as a representative, and sometimes by the government agency leading these enterprises.

The function of a collective trademark is to indicate to users that the companies using the trademark have unique characteristics. An enterprise using a collective trademark has the right to use other exclusive trademarks of its own at the same time. The trademark laws of my country, the United States, most Western countries with civil law systems, some Eastern European countries and some developing countries all have provisions for registration protection of collective trademarks.

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Features:

(1) A collective trademark does not belong to a single natural person, legal person or other organization, that is, it belongs to multiple natural persons, legal persons or other organizations. A community organization composed of other organizations indicates that the goods or services come from a certain collective organization.

This collective can be a specific guild, chamber of commerce and other industrial and commercial groups or other collective organizations. The providers of specific goods or services retreat behind the collective as members of the collective. Reflecting its "unique" and "unique" characteristics;

(2) A collective trademark is registered and owned in the name of a collective composed of members, and is owned by each member. A collective right for the same use is reflected in the application for registration of collective trademarks, which requires that only collective organizations with legal personality can apply, because only collective organizations with legal personality can own trademark rights in the independent name of their collective. ;

(3) Collective trademarks are reflected in the use of trademarks, which means that collective organizations usually do not use the collective trademark, but are used jointly by members of the organization; members who are not members of the organization cannot Use; each member has equal rights to use, and there is no affiliation between members; at the same time, the use of collective members must be supervised, and members who violate the rules of use must be dealt with.

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