To put it simply, a certification mark is controlled by an organization with the ability to detect and supervise certain goods or services, and is used by someone other than it on goods or services to certify the quality of the goods or services. Trademarks of origin, raw materials, manufacturing methods, quality, precision or other specific qualities. For example, "green food" logo, etc. The difference between it and ordinary trademarks is as follows:

1. Certification trademarks indicate that goods or services have certain specific qualities, while 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 only need to be registered in accordance with the law. of operators.

3. When applying for registration of a certification mark, you must submit management rules in accordance with the "Registration and Management Measures for Collective Trademarks and Certification Marks". For ordinary trademarks, you only need to submit management rules in accordance with the "Trademark Law" and "Trademark Law Implementation Regulations" Submit your application.

4. The registrant of a certification mark cannot use the certification mark on the goods or services he or she operates. For ordinary trademarks, the registrant must use his or her registered trademark on the goods or services he/she operates.

5. Certification trademarks that are allowed to be used by others must go through the procedures in accordance with the "Registration and Management Measures for Collective Trademarks and Certification Trademarks" and be issued a "Permit of Use". General trademarks that are allowed to be used by others 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. ?