Applicants for trademark registration should register trademarks based on their own identities, so it is very important to distinguish between the concepts of personal trademarks, collective trademarks and geographical trademarks. For example, Shaxian Snacks is a collective trademark and has been recognized as a collective trademark by the Trademark Office. As long as people want to open a Shaxian snack bar, they can put the Shaxian snack trademark on their store.

The meaning of a collective trademark is a trademark registered in the name of a group, association or other organization, whose members are used exclusively to express the user's membership in the organization in commercial activities. The trademark laws enacted by various countries are different, mainly because the development level of trademarks in each country is different, and the regulations on collective trademark registration are also different in each country. Some countries stipulate that collective trademarks are registered by a federation of enterprises as representatives, and sometimes by the government agency leading these enterprises. Here, the role of a collective trademark is to indicate to users that the companies using the trademark have the same characteristics. When an enterprise uses a collective trademark, it means that the enterprise also enjoys exclusive rights to other trademarks.

Collective trademarks are the focus of trademark protection, and the importance of collective trademarks has been recognized in many countries. If a trademark registration applicant wants to register a collective trademark, he can first find a regular trademark agency, notify the agency of the specific circumstances of the trademark you want to register, and then submit a trademark registration application to the Trademark Office after confirming the collective trademark you want to register. Registration allows you to register yourself. Within 6 to 9 months after acceptance, the Trademark Office will issue an acceptance number. The applicant for trademark registration can use the trademark, but the time to actually obtain the right to use the trademark is within 2 months after the Trademark Office completes the review, approval and announcement. Whether it is trademark registration or trademark transfer, you can safely let Bajie Intellectual Property Trademark Network handle it for you!