When applying for collective trademark registration, you must submit usage management rules, and the products or services must be unified according to certain quality standards; when applying for an ordinary trademark, you do not need to submit usage management rules. In addition, collective trademarks do not need to sign a licensing contract when allowing members of their organizations to use them. General trademarks must sign a licensing contract when licensing others to use them. Within 2 years after the collective trademark expires, the Trademark Office shall not approve the registration of identical or similar trademarks. Ordinary trademarks only need to sign a licensing contract. Within one year, the Trademark Office can approve the registration of an identical or similar trademark. The significance of using a collective trademark is not only to indicate that a certain product or service has the same characteristics and is produced and provided by members of the same organization; it is also conducive to achieving economies of scale and expanding market share and influence; at the same time, it has It is conducive to giving full play to the group's advantages, maintaining the group's reputation, and protecting the interests of the group and its members. A collective mark not only indicates that goods and services are produced or provided by certain members of a collective group, but also indicates membership of this special group (Title 15, United States Annotated Code, Section 1127). Therefore, there are two forms of collective marks: collective trade (or service) marks and collective membership marks. Collective marks or service marks are traditional marks in the sense that the source indicated by the mark is the source of a member of the collective group; there is no trademark ownership in the producer or provider, and the trademark ownership belongs to the producer or provider They are not traditional trademarks in the sense that they are owned by the groups of which they are members. Since a class membership mark is not used to indicate origin at all, a class membership mark is not a traditional mark at all. However, collective membership marks and collective marks have one common feature: the mark indicates a relationship with a group. It is this characteristic that is mainly designated as a collective mark and distinguishes it from a certification mark. Certification marks generally prove the characteristics of a certain product, while collective marks only indicate the relationship between a certain producer and a certain group.