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What is a certification mark? What are the registration procedures and conditions for certification trademarks?

Certification marks are controlled by an organization with the ability to detect and supervise certain goods or services, and are used on goods or services by people other than them to certify the origin, raw materials, and manufacturing of the goods or services. Trademarks of method, quality, precision or other specific qualities. For example, the "green food" mark, etc. Processing methods:

There are two ways to apply for registration of a certification trademark or collective trademark:

(1) Entrust a trademark agency registered with the Trademark Office to handle the application.

(2) The applicant goes directly to the Trademark Registration Hall of the Trademark Office to apply. Application conditions and procedures (1) If a trademark agency is entrusted to handle the application for registration of a certification mark or collective mark, the applicant can voluntarily choose any trademark agency registered with the Trademark Office to handle it. All trademark agencies registered with the Trademark Office are published in the "Agency" column. (2) If the applicant goes directly to the Trademark Registration Hall of the Trademark Office to apply for registration of a certification mark or collective mark, the applicant can follow the following steps: Inquiry before application (optional procedure) → Prepare application documents → Apply in the Trademark Registration Hall Submit the application documents at the acceptance window → Confirm the submission of the registration application at the coding window → Pay the trademark registration fee at the payment window → Receive the fee receipt (after the applicant receives the receipt, the submission of the trademark registration application is completed. Trademark registration review procedure Please refer to the "Trademark Registration Flow Chart". After receiving the "Notice of Received Trademark Registration Certificate", the applicant shall go to the Trademark Registration Hall to receive the "Trademark Registration Certificate") Application materials: (1) Application documents required to prove the trademark 1 , "Trademark Registration Application". Please refer to the filling instructions for details on filling requirements. 2. Documents and copies certifying the qualifications of the trademark applicant, or a valid copy with the applicant's seal, and a detailed description of the professional and technical personnel, professional testing equipment, etc. that it has or the organization it entrusts has, To show that it has the ability to supervise the quality of the specific goods certified by the certification mark. 3. Management rules for the use of certification trademarks. 4. If you go directly to the trademark registration hall to apply for registration, you must submit the ID card and copy of the person in charge (the original will be returned after comparison); if you entrust a trademark agency to handle the registration application, you must submit a trademark agency power of attorney. 5. If the certification mark applied for registration is a portrait of a person, a notarized statement from the portrait owner agreeing to register the portrait as a trademark should be attached.