Service marks, collective marks, certification marks.

Explanation

1: Service trademark

(1) Service trademark refers to a natural person, legal person or other organization that uses it to distinguish it when providing services or in advertising. A sign of service to others. Traditionally, we refer to product trademarks and service trademarks as general trademarks.

(2) Service marks, also known as service marks or service marks, refer to marks used by operators providing services to distinguish the services they provide from those provided by others. Like product trademarks, service marks can be composed of words, graphics, letters, numbers, three-dimensional logos, sounds and color combinations, as well as combinations of the above elements. Once it is registered by a service enterprise, the enterprise also has the exclusive right to use the service trademark and is protected by law.

2: Collective trademark

(1) Collective trademark (COLLECTIVE MARK) refers to a registered name in the name of a group, association or other organization, and is exclusively used by members of the organization in commercial activities. , a flag indicating the user's membership in the organization. In some countries, it may also be registered by a federation of enterprises as a representative, and sometimes by the government agency leading these enterprises.

(2) The function of a collective trademark is to indicate to users that the enterprises using the trademark have unique characteristics. An enterprise using a collective trademark has the right to use other exclusive trademarks of its own at the same time. The trademark laws of my country, the United States, most Western countries with civil law systems, some Eastern European countries and some developing countries all have provisions for registration protection of collective trademarks.

Three: Certification trademarks

(1) Controlled by an organization with the ability to detect and supervise certain goods or services, and used on goods or services by persons other than them , a trademark that certifies the origin, raw materials, manufacturing methods, quality, precision or other specific qualities of goods or services. For example, "green food" logo, etc.