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What is the difference between an ordinary trademark and a certification mark?

(1) The registrant of a certification mark must be an organization established in accordance with the law, possessing legal personality, and having the ability to detect and supervise the specific quality of goods and services. Applicants for registration of ordinary trademarks only need to be operators registered in accordance with the law. (2) The Trademark Office shall not approve the registration of identical or similar trademarks within two years of the expiration of a certification trademark. For ordinary trademarks, it only takes one year for the Trademark Office to approve the registration of an identical or similar trademark. (3) The registrant of a certification mark cannot use the certification mark on the goods or services he/she operates. General trademarks must use their own registered trademarks on the goods or services they operate. (4) Certification trademarks indicate that goods or services have certain specific qualities, and ordinary trademarks indicate that goods or services come from a certain operator. (5) Both certification trademarks and ordinary trademarks can be transferred. However, the transferee of a certification mark should have corresponding subject qualifications and comply with the provisions of the Trademark Law, Implementing Regulations and the "Registration and Management Measures for Collective Marks and Certification Marks". The transferees of ordinary trademarks include individual industrial and commercial households and partners registered in accordance with the law. (6) When applying for registration of a certification mark, management rules must be submitted in accordance with the "Registration and Management Measures for Collective Trademarks and Certification Marks". For ordinary trademarks, applications only need to be submitted in accordance with the provisions of the Trademark Law and Implementing Regulations.