According to Article 3, Paragraph 3 of my country’s Trademark Law, certification marks can be divided into two types. One is a quality certification mark, which is used to prove that goods have a certain specific quality; the other is a geographical indication. Certification marks are used to prove that goods originate from a certain place of origin and have specific qualities related to the place of origin. Compared with ordinary trademarks, geographical indication certification trademarks have distinct characteristics: first, the function of a trademark is to indicate the origin and quality, without distinguishing operators, and different operators can use the same geographical indication certification trademark; second, trademark rights People must have the ability to detect and supervise the specific quality of goods and be able to ensure the "certification" function of the trademark; third, the trademark can only be licensed to operators who meet the origin and quality requirements, and the trademark owner cannot use it himself.

Obviously, there are many differences between geographical indication certification marks and ordinary trademarks that people usually understand. These differences also lead to the need to follow its rules and characteristics when granting judicial protection to geographical indication certification marks.