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What's the difference between a certification trademark and an ordinary trademark?
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Prove the difference between trademarks and ordinary trademarks (commodity trademarks and service trademarks)

(1) A certification trademark indicates that a commodity or service has a certain quality, while an ordinary trademark indicates that the commodity or service comes from a certain operator.

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

(3) When applying for the registration of certification trademarks, the management rules must be submitted in accordance with the Administrative Measures for the Registration of Collective Trademarks and Certification Trademarks, and ordinary trademarks only need to be submitted in accordance with the Trademark Law and the Regulations for the Implementation of the Trademark Law.

(4) A registrant of a certification trademark cannot use the certification trademark on the goods or services it deals in, and an ordinary trademark must use its registered trademark on the goods or services it deals in.

(5) To permit others to use the certification trademark, they must go through the formalities in accordance with the Measures for the Administration of the Registration of Collective Trademarks and Certification Trademarks and issue a license. To allow others to use generic trademarks, they must sign a license contract.

(6) Both certification trademarks and ordinary trademarks are transferable. However, the transferee of the certification trademark must be an organization established according to law, with legal person qualification and detection and supervision ability. Transferees of ordinary trademarks include individual industrial and commercial households and partners registered according to law.

(7) The Trademark Office shall not approve the same or similar trademark registration within two years after the expiration of the validity period of the certification trademark, while the Trademark Office can only approve the same or similar trademark registration within one year of the ordinary trademark.