Legal basis: Article 4 of the Intellectual Property Law of the People's Republic of China. Enterprises, institutions and individual businessmen who need to obtain the exclusive right to use a trademark for the goods they produce, manufacture, process, select or distribute shall apply to the Trademark Office for trademark registration. Enterprises, institutions and individual industrial and commercial households that need to obtain the exclusive right to use trademarks for the services they provide shall apply to the Trademark Office for registration of service trademarks. The provisions of this Law on commodity trademarks shall apply to service trademarks.