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The difference between certification marks and ordinary trademarks (commodity marks and service marks)

(1) Certification trademarks indicate that goods or services have certain specific qualities, and ordinary trademarks indicate that goods or services come from a certain operator.

(2) The registrant of a certification trademark must be an organization established in accordance with the law, with legal personality, and capable of testing and supervising the specific quality of goods and services. Applicants for registration of ordinary trademarks must only be registered in accordance with the law. Registered operator.

(3) 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". Ordinary trademarks only need to submit management rules in accordance with the "Trademark Law" and "Trademark Law Implementation Regulations" Provides for submission of applications.

(4) The registrant of a certification mark cannot use the certification mark on the goods or services he or she operates. A general trademark must use his or her registered trademark on the goods or services he/she operates.

(5) Certification trademarks that are licensed to others for use must complete procedures in accordance with the "Registration and Management Measures for Collective Trademarks and Certification Marks" and be issued a "Permit of Use". General trademarks that are licensed to others for use must sign a licensing contract. .

(6) Both certification trademarks and ordinary trademarks can be transferred. However, the transferee of a certification mark must be an organization established in accordance with the law, with legal personality and the ability to detect and supervise. The transferees of ordinary trademarks include individual industrial and commercial households and partners registered in accordance with the law.

(7) 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 identical or similar trademarks.